Clinton suggests consulate attack was work of Al Qaeda affiliate [ournewsa.blogspot.com]

Clinton suggests consulate attack was work of Al Qaeda affiliate [ournewsa.blogspot.com]

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Manu CHAO / Amazigh KATEB / Tiken JAH FAKOLY : Politic kills

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested the deadly consulate attack in Libya involved the Al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa, going further than any other Obama administration official has yet in acknowledging the the assault was the work of hardened terrorists.

Clinton was speaking to foreign leaders gathered at a meeting convened by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to address the threat of extremism in the region.

“Now with a larger safe haven and increased freedom to maneuver, terrorists are seeking to extend their reach and their networks in multiple directions,” Clinton told the group, according to a New York Times report. “And they are working with other violent extremists to undermine the democratic transitions under way in North Africa, as we tragically saw in Benghazi.”

It wasn't the first time Clinton had referred to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as a terrorist attack. But her reference to the group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was notable, especially as President Obama still has yet to publicly refer to the attack as terrorism.

Republicans have pounced on the administration's shifting explanation for the Sept. 11 attack, which left U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead. Administration officials initially described it as "spontaneous" violence, possibly related to protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the U.S., but the administration has gradually walked that explanation back while acknowledging the attack was an act of terror.

The White House said Wednesday that Obama, too, considers the deadly assault a terrorist attack. Press Secretary Jay Carney said it is "certainly the case that it is our view as an administration, and the president's view, that it was a terrorist attack."

Carney's comments came after Mitt Romney accused Obama of failing to "level with the American people" about the nature of the attack.

Obama has declined several chances to call the incident a terrorist attack. He said last week that extremists used an anti-Islam video as an excuse to assault U.S. interests, and in an interview this week on ABC's "The View," he would only say that it clearly "wasn't just a mob action."

On Capitol Hill, eight Republicans who head House committees sent a letter to Obama saying they were disturbed by statements from administration officials suggesting that the attack was a protest gone wrong rather than a terrorist attack. They said they would be willing to return to Washington from Congress' nearly two-month recess if the administration scheduled another briefing on Libya.

Clinton and senior Pentagon and intelligence officials briefed members of the House and Senate last Thursday on Libya.

Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called the continued threat of terrorism "an inconvenient truth" for Obama, given his re-election campaign's efforts to tout the progress made against Al Qaeda.

“But it is not too much to ask why the president and his administration have taken so long to state what has appeared obvious for a long time about what really happened in Benghazi," the senators said in a joint statement. "This is just one more example of this president's failure to lead in the Middle East and how that failure has threatened America's national security interests. Now is not the time to lead from behind.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Question by SensoSketch: Can someone provide for me a definition of the word "politic" in its plural form? Do "politics" usually deal with a situation involving some form of government? I thought you could use the term in a different sense. I messed up. I knew that politic was an adjective, but I thought (wrongly) that it was a noun as well, and was thus associated with the word "politics". --> I really would like to know about "politics", not so much "politic." Best answer for Can someone provide for me a definition of the word "politic" in its plural form?:

Answer by picador
Politic is an adjective and has no plural form. It means tactful and does not necessarily have anything to do with politics as such. The noun-form equivalent is only plural - i.e. politics. The only pluralized variety that I can think of is "politicians."

Answer by bfalls
Politics, like mathematics, aerobics, and a number of other -s nouns, is actually singular. "Politics is on everyone's mind this season." I suggest looking the word up at dictionary.com or another online dictionary if you just want a definition. It basically involves how people interact about running an organization. It can be electoral politics, as you say, dealing with government, even student government in a school. Sometimes this is called partisan politics because people organize themselves into parties to win elections. This sense of the word leads to talking about an individual's politics, meaning his or her party affiliation or positions on political issues. It can be office politics, usually used pejoratively to describe the unpleasant way people sometimes try to gain advantage over others at work. I've seen it used to describe the way pack animals like wolves negotiate for status within the group; I think this is a figurative use, not an official scientific term of the people who study animal behavior.

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