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4 consulate slayings sting U.S.

By PETER BAKER, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK AND ALAN COWELL

Posted: September 13, 2012 at 4:20 a.m.

Credit: AP
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton follows President Barack Obama to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, to deliver a statement on the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The deaths of four U.S. diplomats in Libya during a heavily armed and possibly planned assault on a flimsily protected consulate facility on the 9/11 anniversary presented the Obama administration with new challenges Wednesday in the volatile Middle East less than two months before the presidential election.

Obama: Libya killers will be brought to justice

President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, strongly condemned Tuesday's attacks against the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans and said the killers will be brought to justice. (By AP/Pool)
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