The September 11 attack in Libya that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens
and three colleagues wasn’t coordinated in advance, according to
Matthew Olsen, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center.
US
and Libyan officials differ publicly on whether the attack on the
American compound in Benghazi, Libya, was planned in advance by radical
Islamists or whether extremists took advantage of a peaceful protest to
attack the US consulate in the country’s second-largest city.
Olsen
said the US is “looking at indications” that individuals involved in
the attack may have had connections to al-Qaida or its North African
affiliate, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
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