‘Calls for more security in Benghazi were ignored’

Hillary Clinton about an apparent lack of suf­ficient protections at the facility.
“Multiple US federal government officials have confirmed to the committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the US mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi,” Issa said in a letter to Clinton.
“The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources in Washington.”
The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed when the Benghazi consulate came under attack on the anniversary of the Sep­tember 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Issa asked what measures, if any, the State Department had taken to boost security at the US mission in Libya following a months-long series of attacks and threats against or near US facilities or personnel.
Issa said his committee was convening a hearing on October 10 “to consider the secu­rity situation in Benghazi leading up to the September 11 attack,” and State Department security assessments and decision-making.
The lawmaker said the Benghazi unrest “was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012.” Precisely who was behind the attack that killed Stevens and members of his staff remains under investigation but Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has come under intense scrutiny, two officials said. — AFP.