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Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi talking points raises questions
www.washingtonpost.com-May 22, 2013
The controversy over the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attack last year began at a meeting over coffee on Capitol Hill three days after the assault.
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Benghazi e-mails unleash flood of questions
www.usatoday.com-May 17, 2013
Dozens of e-mails released by the White House reveal that Obama administration officials were behind the crafting of a false narrative about the attack in Benghazi, Libya. The communications raise questions about who called the shots and why, say an analyst and a lawmaker involved in the investigation.
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Fact Check: Timeline of statements raises questions on Obama’s Benghazi claims
www.foxnews.com-May 14, 2013
Faced with mounting scrutiny over his administration's initial narrative on the Benghazi attack, President Obama on Monday called the debate a "sideshow" -- arguing he labeled the attack terrorism from the start and even dispatched a top official to the Hill to clear things up.
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
www.la.times.com-May 14, 2013
A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans.
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Chairman of Benghazi Board Defends Its Decision Not to Question Clinton
www.nytimes.com-May 13, 2013
The State Department board that reviewed last year’s attack on a diplomatic outpost in Libya never questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state at the time, because it had already decided responsibility lay below her level, the board’s chairman said Sunday.
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Gates Backs Obama Administration’s Handling of Benghazi Attack
www.bloomberg.com-May 13, 2013
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed the Obama administration’s handling of the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, saying that had he headed the Pentagon at the time he wouldn’t have approved sending a small force into Libya as some critics suggested.
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GOP Probes Deeper Into Benghazi Review
www.online.wsj.com-May 13, 2013
House Republicans on Monday plan to take another step in a widening Benghazi investigation, by asking leaders of an independent review board to agree to be questioned about their investigation of last year's attacks in Libya.
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At Benghazi hearing, State Dept. officials challenge administration review of attacks
www.washingtonpost.com-May 09, 2013
Three State Department officials on Wednesday provided a riveting, emotional account of last year’s fatal attack on U.S. installations in eastern Libya as they accused senior government officials of withholding embarrassing facts and failing to take enough responsibility for security lapses.
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Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
www.washingtonpost.com-March 22, 2013
The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this West African capital, blasted by 110-degree heat and the occasional sandstorm blowing from the Sahara.
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Militant Threats Test Role of a Pentagon Command in Africa
www.nytimes.com-February 12, 2013
Created five years ago to focus on training the armed forces of dozens of African nations and strengthening social, political and economic programs, the Pentagon’s Africa Command now finds itself on a more urgent mission: confronting a new generation of Islamist militants who are testing the United States’ resolve to fight terrorism without being drawn into a major conflict.
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Relief and Anxiety Meld in Malian Towns Freed of Islamists
www.nytimes.com-January 30, 2013
As French and Malian troops routed Islamist militants from the northern Malian towns of Gao and Timbuktu, residents’ relief and elation appeared to give way on Tuesday to some measure of reprisal and frustration.
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U.S. plans to add drone base in West Africa
www.washingtonpost.com-January 29, 2013
The U.S. military is planning a new drone base in Africa that would expand its surveillance of al-Qaeda fighters and other militants in northern Mali, a development that would escalate American involvement in a fast-spreading conflict.
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With Timbuktu Retaken, France Signals It Plans to Pull Back in Mali
www.nytimes.com-January 29, 2013
French paratroopers arrived in the ancient desert oasis of Timbuktu on Monday, securing its airport and main roads as thousands of residents poured out of its narrow, mud-walled streets to greet French and Malian troops, waving the two countries’ flags, with whoops, cheers and shouts.
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Mali: Timbuktu emerging from 10 months of terror under extremists as French-Mali forces arrive
www.washingtonpost.com-January 28, 2013
French and Malian military forces closed in on the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday with armed Islamist extremists having fled into the desert after setting a library holding ancient manuscripts ablaze.
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Mali Army, Riding U.S. Hopes, Is Proving No Match for Militants
www.nytimes.com-January 25, 2013
At first, the battle went well.
Boubacar Yattara, a 25-year-old Malian soldier, fed the heavy machine gun atop an armored vehicle. His unit fired on a truck full of Islamist militants, destroying it. He radioed for reinforcements, but his commanding officer had bad news. His fellow soldiers had already fallen back, beating a hasty retreat.
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