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Libya: Dying for Security
CBS News was first to interview the key witness in the denied security requests leading up to the attack on the US Mission at Benghazi: the Commander of a Special Forces Unit Lt. Col. Andrew Wood. In a series of exclusive reports, Col. Wood told his compelling story: how those on the ground, including Amb. Christopher Stevens, documented a drastically deteriorating security situation in Libya and made repeated requests for continued or enhanced security only to have them all denied.
Tags: Benghazi; Libya; U.S. soldier; military
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Benghazi: US Consulate Attack
On September 11, when a militant group overran the US consulate in Benghazi resulting in the death of the ambassador, the initial information was contradictory. Much of it got mixed up with other reports out of the Middle East about anti-American demonstrations over an inflammatory film on the Internet that was said to insult Islam. Damon arrived quickly in Benghazi to sort out the conflicting information and went to the burnt consulate ruins, which, though looted, held valuable clues to the truth. Her reporting revealed that there was not a demonstration and that it appeared to have been a planned attack that unfolded simultaneously from three sides. She discovered that U.S. diplomats had been warned by Libyan officials three days before the attack that the security situation in the city was out of their control. Though her reporting received harsh public criticism from the State Department at the time, the U.S. government’s own investigation later proved her reporting to be accurate in an episode that continues to reverberate politically. Damon also spoke to Libyans that tried to save the ambassador that night, shedding light on what happened to him during his final hours. While she was in Benghazi, demonstrations erupted against the militia believed to be responsible for the attack, and Damon further reported on the rise in extremism in the newly-liberated country. Her reporting provided additional valuable context about the milieu in which the consulate attack occurred.
Tags: Middle East; Libya; U.S. ambassador; Benghazi; militant group
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National Security and Terrorism Beat
The Brian Ross Investigative Unit looked at various national security issues including the Seattle Bomb Plot, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the war in Libya, the killing of Anwar al Awlaki and the killing of a Saudi ambassador to the U.S. that was thought to have been sought by the Iranian government.
Tags: broadcast; terrorism; Seattle Bomb Plot; Osama bin Laden; Libya; Anwar al Awlaki; national security
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Making money, raising eyebrows
"An examination by the Sun shows that the pension fund's $23 billion portfolio contains investments in companies that do business with rogue nations or whose practices contribute to social or environmental ills in direct opposition to the United States and Nevada policies."
Tags: business; pension; Iran; Syria; Sudan; Libya; child labor; nuclear waste; Nevada;
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"The Traitor: the Ed Wilson Story"
Nightline investigated the case of Ed Wilson, a former CIA agent, who was sentenced in 1983 to 52 years in federal prison for selling arms and explosives to Libya. Twenty years later he was quietly exonerated and it was brought to light that prosecutors and government witnesses had fabricated evidence against Wilson and lied under oath. Now, three of those men are federal judges and others prominent lawyers in Washington.
Tags: Miscarriage of justice; perjury; CIA; Justice Department
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Open for Business: While Marc Rich Was Fugitive, Firm Dealt With Pariah Nations
A team of Wall Street Journal reporters from around the globe reports that while fugitive billionaire Marc Rich worked to clear his name of criminal allegations, his trading empire also worked hard -- "landing some of the same sorts of deals that helped him get into trouble in the first place." Rich, who received a pardon from President Clinton before he left the White House, was indicted in 1983 on tax-evasion charges. Prosecutors also charged that Rich bought "about $200 million worth of oil from Iran while revolutionaries...held 53 Americans hostage there in 1979-81...Mr. Rich was never tried because he fled to Switzerland and renounced his American citizenship before being indicted." After he moved to Switzerland, Rich's business, unfettered by American trade restrictions, "not only conducted additional deals in Iran, it also traded with Libya, Cuba and South Africa, all at times when U.S. citizens and companies were barred from doing so." Although Rich's business practices since leaving the U.S. have not been illegal, they do "raise new questions about the wisdom of pardoning him."
Tags: Marc Rich; Pincus Green; presidential pardons; Denise Rich; trade restrictions; Marc Rich Investment
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Shadow Over Lockerbie
"On December 21, 1988, 270 people died in the worst-ever act of air terrorism against the U.S. - the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Eleven years later, two alleged members of the Libyan Intelligence Service are scheduled to face trial starting in February, 2000. Relatives of the victims sway they're pleased that the Lockerbie case will finally get a thorough hearing in a court room. Many are convinced of the Libyan's guilt. Others are skeptical."
Tags: CASSETTE TAPE; radio; terrorism; airline; bomb; FBI; Syria; Iran; Libya.
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Russo-American Nuclear Cities
Russia is using U.S. money to build nuclear and biological weapons, for itself and such rogue states as Libya and Iran. And the White House wants to give it millions more.
Tags: Biological weapons
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This Dallas Observer series examines the relationship between legendary Dallas real estate developer Trammell Crow and Mohamed El Bukhari, the Treasury Minister of Libya and among the closest advisors to internationally reviled dictator Muammar al-Qadhafi. El Bukhari may have used this friendship as a way to ease international economic sanctions against Libya. (December 22 - 28, 1994)
Tags: Rozen The Crow-Quadhafi connection Republicans U.S. Treasury Department 8 pgs.
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Sanctions: The Pluses and Minuses
A US News & World Report investigation reveals how Libya was able to legally circumvent UN sanctions, and how key American allies, such as the government of Egypt, allegedly assisted Libya in violating the sanctions. Other allies like Italy and Britain failed to impose some of the sanctions that delegates to the United Nations imposed. The report also examines the question over whether sanctions work.