Those injured were a firefighter treated for heat exhaustion, a bystander who suffered a heart attack, and a couple in their 80s who were treated for panic attacks.

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Defence lawyer Martin Morgan said that while what happened was a "vicious attack", it had "happened in the heat of the moment" in what was "a moment of madness".

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Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, took the most direct heat because of her assertions in a Sunday television interview days after the attack that linked the attacks to a demonstration outside the Benghazi consulate.

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