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Campaign blazes on new turf

By PETER BAKER THE NEW YORK TIMES

Posted: September 13, 2012 at 4:17 a.m.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes comments on the killing of U.S. embassy officials in Benghazi, Libya, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

The deadly attack on Americans in Libya fueled an escalation of the U.S. presidential campaign Wednesday as Mitt Romney assailed President Barack Obama’s handling of the situation, and Democrats accused Romney, the Republican nominee, of politicizing an international crisis.

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