Others said he was a foe of the United States and its allies, and had endangered confidential intelligence informants whose names appeared in an initial batch of the WikiLeaks documents.

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General Petraeus reversed his original attribution of the attack to a mob protest when he appeared before a congressional intelligence committee last Friday, telling members that the CIA did, in fact, know that terrorists were responsible from the very beginning.

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