Officials later acknowledged that there was no protest in Benghazi at the time of the attack.
Clinton's spokesman Victoria Nuland successfully lobbied to excise earlier CIA warnings of terrorism in Benghazi.
But Mr Barghathi, who is based in Benghazi, said three women had been attacked.
The group of aid workers were taken to the Turkish consulate in Benghazi after their release.
He knew Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was one of the four killed in Benghazi.
Whereas the front line is thin and shaky, there is a security vacuum in Benghazi.
He's now back at work in Benghazi writing about Libya's political changes for al-Jazeera.
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But rebels in Benghazi, the main city in eastern Libya, said they had retaken the town.
He was killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last September.
Yesterday, four Americans lost their lives after an attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
She is believed to be the first U.S. diplomat killed since the September attack in Benghazi, Libya.
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PLC, one of the foreign operators of the Algeria site, said it has no staff in Benghazi.
Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM personnel are in the compound safe haven.
Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stephens, were killed during an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
For CNN, the ambassador's writings served as tips about the situation in Libya, and in Benghazi in particular.
Republicans had fiercely criticised her response to last September's deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Throughout the Libyan revolution, he selflessly served our country and the Libyan people at our mission in Benghazi.
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Britain has not had a diplomatic presence in Benghazi - Libya's second largest city - since the attack.
Second, except in reference to the attack in Benghazi, Romney pointedly avoids mention of Islam, Islamism, or jihad.
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She also questions the point about the CIA's previous warnings to the State Department about potential attacks in Benghazi.
And they represented the best assessment by our intelligence professionals about what had happened in Benghazi at that time.
Stevens, who was 52, was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
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U.S. officials have said the group was tied to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
In Benghazi, series of assassinations and bombings of police stations have prompted diplomatic missions to leave over the past year.
In the midst of the 2012 presidential race, attackers in Benghazi, Libya, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
It has a base in Benghazi and controls the al-Jala hospital, where two of its wounded men are holed up.
Libya's deputy interior minister Abdullah Massoud responded by insisting the security problems in Benghazi did not warrant such a response.
BP, one of the foreign operators of the Algeria site attacked last week, said it has no staff in Benghazi.
Security in Benghazi is working on implanting security in the city. and an overnight curfew is being considered, authorities said.
State Department officials conceded during the hearings that they had made errors in responding to the security situation in Benghazi.
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