Blog Entry #5

            The American ambassador and three others were killed in a deadly attack at the American diplomatic mission located in Benghazi, Libya. This week while at a United Nations meeting in North Africa, Hillary Clinton made a statement that proposes the Qaeda franchise may have been a part of what has taken place, and has left many questioning whether or not the attack could have been prevented.

Upon making the statement, Hillary Clinton did not offer any new evidence to defend her claims. It is said that in order for there to be confirmation about Al Qaeda’s involvement, the F.B. I would need to further investigate the matter, which could take months to complete.

It seems the events that took place that day have yet to be fully explained. This has left the Republicans in Congress with questions concerning President Obama motives. They believe that he may be “playing down possible terrorist involvement” because of the highly publicized re-election campaign that has been going on.

The place in which Clinton chose to make this statement is a region that has been infested with Islamic extremist, which has led to a division in the country. Al Qaeda has “long operated in the region.” Clinton spoke of the way these terrorist are now trying to “extend their reach and their networks in multiple direction.”

These terrorist have taken over a part of the country that is the size of France. There have been meetings held to talk about military action being used in order to regain the control of these overrun territories. President of France, Francois Hollande, made the statement that, “We cannot stand by and allow terrorists to take over an entire territory.”

I was interested to find out that this “spontaneous eruption of violence” most likely stemmed from the video post online about Mohammed that my earlier blog post was about.

 

09/27/12 3:42 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/world/africa/clinton-cites-clear-link-between-al-qaeda-and-attack-in-libya.html?ref=world