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|publisher=U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya

|publisher=U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya

|date=September 12, 2012

|date=September 12, 2012

|accessdate=October 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite_web|url=http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/09/20120912135826.html|title=President Obama on the Attack in Benghazi|date=September 12, 2012|accessdate=October 12, 2012|publisher=International Information Programs, U.S. Embassy}}</ref> [[United States Foreign Service|Foreign Service]] Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and private security employees and former [[United States Navy SEALs|U.S. Navy SEALs]] Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods. Ambassador Stevens was reported to have been brutally raped before his murder.<ref>[http://www.aina.org/news/20120913165253.htm Ambassador Stevens Was Raped Before His Murder, Reports Claim,] Assyrian International News Agency, 9-13-2012.</ref> The attack also injured two other Americans.  

|accessdate=October 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite_web|url=http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/09/20120912135826.html|title=President Obama on the Attack in Benghazi|date=September 12, 2012|accessdate=October 12, 2012|publisher=International Information Programs, U.S. Embassy}}</ref> [[United States Foreign Service|Foreign Service]] Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and private security employees and former [[United States Navy SEALs|U.S. Navy SEALs]] Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods.  The attack also injured two other Americans.  

With [[2012 Presidential election]] less than two months away, the [[Obama administration]] downplayed the seriousness and enormity of the attack, initially claiming it was provoked by a comedy video, but the facts disproved that.

With [[2012 Presidential election]] less than two months away, the [[Obama administration]] downplayed the seriousness and enormity of the attack, initially claiming it was provoked by a comedy video, but the facts disproved that.