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Little Describes Pentagon’s Benghazi Decision Process
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(DOD) Two U.S. service members did participate with a CIA team in the
mission to rescue Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, Pentagon
Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
Little spoke of the events of that night during a press availability in his
Pentagon office. Four Americans -- including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya
J. Christopher Stevens -- were killed in a terror attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi that night.
The two American service members were based in the Libyan capital of
Tripoli and volunteered to join the team that traveled to Benghazi. Little
could not say what position the service members held, but did say DOD is
proud that they volunteered to perform the mission.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=118420
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Abbas: No Right Of Hometown Return
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(rfe) Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas says he has no right to
return to live in his boyhood hometown, which is now in Israel.
Speaking in an interview with Israeli television, Abbas said it is his
right to “see” the town of Safed “but not to live there.”
Abbas spent his boyhood in Safed, in Galilee in what is now northern
Israel, but he and his family fled during the 1948 war that led to Israel’s
founding and have not returned.
http://www.rferl.org/content/palestinians-abbas-israel/24758349.html
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Abu Jihad killing: Israeli censor releases commando's account
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(bbc) Israel's military censor has cleared for publication an interview
with a commando who killed the deputy of the then Palestinian chief Yasser
Arafat.
It has been widely believed that Abu Jihad was killed by Israeli agents in
Tunis in 1988 but Israel has never officially acknowledged it.
However, the censor has allowed Yediot Ahronot newspaper to publish the
interview with Nahum Lev.
Mr Lev died in 2000 and his account has not been made public until now.
Abu Jihad - whose real name was Khalil al-Wazir - founded the Palestine
Liberation Organisation (PLO) with Yasser Arafat and was blamed for a
string of deadly attacks on Israelis.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20172511
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