Middle East

What time was Ambassador's Stevens' body recovered, what are the known details surrounding his disappearance and death, including where he/his body was taken/found/transported and by whom?

Who made the decision not to convene the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) the night of the Benghazi attacks?

We understand that convening the CSG a protocol under Presidential directive ("NSPD-46"). Is that true? If not, please explain. [If] so, why was the protocol not followed? Is the Administration revising the applicable Presidential directive? If so, please explain.

Who is the highest-ranking official who was aware of pre-911 security requests from US personnel in Libya?

Who is/are the official(s) responsible for removing reference to al-Qaeda from the original CIA notes?

Was the President aware of Gen. Petraeus' potential problems prior to Thurs., Nov. 8, 2012? And What was the earliest that any White House official was aware? Please provide details.

What is your response to the President stating that on Sept. 12, he called 911 a terrorist attack, in light of his CBS interview on that date in which he answered that it was too early to know whether it was a terrorist attack?

The Administration has stated there were no resources outside Libya that could arrive in Benghazi/N. Africa within 8 hrs on Sept. 11, 2012. Why wouldn't there be and who would have made that decision to leave the area so open on the anniversary of 9/11? And Does this mean that the Administration would have used them if available?

Is anyone being held accountable for having no resources close enough to reach this high-threat area within 8+ hours on Sept. 11, and has the Administration taken steps to have resources available sooner in case of emergency in the future?

A Benghazi victim's family member stated that Mrs. Clinton told him she would find and arrest whoever made the anti-Islam video. Is this accurate? If so, what was Mrs. Clinton's understanding at the time of what would be the grounds for arrest?

The Administration is reported to have asked that the anti-Islamist YouTube video initially blamed in Benghazi be removed from YouTube. If true, what is the Administration's view regarding other videos or future material that it may wish were not published, but are legal? What is the Administration's criteria in general for requesting removal of a YouTube or other Internet video?

Read the whole thing.  Americans under attack by Al Qaeada were abandoned to die in Benghazi.  Someone gave that order.  Who was it?

Remember that?  Yes, the case where an American consulate was overrun by Al Qaeda, and the US ambassador murdered?  I'm sure Obama is eager to find the culprits and go all bin Laden on their asses, right?

Libyans say, the investigation is nonoperational, if not effectively dead, with witnesses too fearful to talk and key police officers targeted for violent retribution. "There is no Libyan investigation. No, no, no," says Mohamed Buisier, a political activist in Benghazi, who returned home in 2011 after decades in the U.S. "There is not even a will to investigate anything. Even for us civilians, it is very dangerous if you talk about this subject."

The growing sense that the culprits in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack might never be caught deepened this week, when Tunisian officials released the sole suspect in custody.

... I guess not.

Whatever one may think of Russia's political opposition to the war in Iraq, no one denies Moscow's right to it. Supplying arms to Iraq is something else.

One of the most important moves so far in the war was the American effort to stop the Republican Guard from entering Baghdad.

The Bush administration has intensified a campaign to sow doubts about whether President Saddam Hussein is still alive and in control.

To read the Arab press is to think that the entire Arab world is enraged with the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and to some extent that's true. But here's what you don't read: underneath the rage, there is also a grudging, skeptical curiosity ? a curiosity about whether the Americans will actually do what they claim and build a new, more liberal Iraq.

In Najaf, people rushed to greet hundreds of U.S. troops today, crying out repeatedly, "Thank you, this is beautiful!"

When Iraqi commanders send soldiers disguised as noncombatants to fire on American troops, the real goal is to turn the Americans against Iraqi civilians.

The Jordanian authorities have arrested a handful of Iraqi agents in connection with a botched plot to poison the water supply that serves American troops, officials said today.

The seizing of a bridge across the Euphrates cleared the Third Infantry Division's last geographic obstacle to Baghdad.

When American troops from the 101st Airborne Division marched into Najaf on Wednesday, they were greeted by urgent requests for water.

With American forces beginning their assault on Baghdad, their commanders would do well to take a close look at the hard-learned lessons of Israel's experience with urban combat. Operation Defensive Shield, the Israeli antiterrorist strike last spring, generated plenty of controversy, but it also supplies a good model for military tactics. After a series of Palestinian suicide bombings, the Israel Defense Forces entered several densely populated West Bank cities, including Nablus and Jenin. Within just a week, Israel gained control of each of them.

Four Western journalists spoke for the first time publicly on Wednesday about their incarceration in the Baghdad government's most notorious prison.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that at least initially, the United States and Britain have "to play the leading role" in postwar Iraq.

The assault on the Saddam International Airport placed American troops about 10 miles from the heart of Baghdad.

The U.S. strategy at this point is to maintain the military momentum and the psychological pressure on Saddam Hussein.

It was a picture of Arab grief and rage. A teenage boy glared from the rubble of a bombed building as a veiled woman wept over the body of a relative. In fact, it was two pictures: one from the American-led war in Iraq and the other from the Palestinian territories, blended into one image this week on the Web site of the popular Saudi daily newspaper Al Watan. The meaning would be clear to any Arab reader: what is happening in Iraq is part of one continuous brutal assault by America and its allies on defenseless Arabs, wherever they are.

The way toward the outskirts of Baghdad proved easier than expected, raising hopes that the endgame in the Iraqi conflict may be close at hand.

Armored columns of the Army's Third Infantry Division swept past the city of Karbala and passed a major obstacle on the road to Baghdad.

I've caught myself wondering again and again this week what my feelings would be - and more importantly, what actions I would take - if I were a resident of Baghdad. I started on this train of thought right after the street bombing in that city, when I heard a journalist report that, aside from what he called the '_pro forma_ dancing and singing in praise of Saddam', the people seemed calm, and, bizarrely enough one might think, even friendly toward him as an American. Later reports from others added to the confusing picture - one reporter described 'young men running through the street brandishing a severed hand and screaming 'Is this your liberation?!'' Such a reaction at least made sense - considering the state of frenzy many of our young (and not so young!) men seem to be whipped into these days, it makes sense to me that those actually in the fray would be somewhat hysterical.

Geraldo Rivera, the moustachioed former daytime TV presenter turned war reporter, has been kicked out of Iraq after "compromising" army operations. He was de-accredited by the US military for reporting Western troop movements in the war, the Pentagon said on Monday. "He was with a [US] military unit in the field and the commander felt that he had compromised operational information by reporting the position and movements of troops," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters.

Residents escaping Basra described a city under strict control of supporters of Saddam Hussein.

U.S. covert teams have been operating in urban areas in Iraq, trying to kill members of President Saddam Hussein's inner circle, including Baath Party officials and Special Republican Guard commanders, according to U.S. and other knowledgeable officials. The covert teams, from the CIA's paramilitary division and the military's Special Operations group, include snipers and demolition experts schooled in setting house and car bombs. They have reportedly killed more than a handful of individuals, according to one knowledgeable source. They have been in operation for at least one week.

How do you admit you were wrong? What do you do when you realize those you were defending in fact did not want your defense and wanted something completely different from you and from the world?

Thirteen soldiers were injured today, none of them critically, when an unknown man plowed into a line of soldiers waiting in line for the base store at this military camp.