Libyan officials spent the night in a manhunt trying to find those responsible for the killings, which occurred when an angry armed mob attacked the diplomatic complex in an apparent protest against an anti-Islamic video created and produced by an American-Israeli real-estate developer.
President Barack Obama in Washington condemned in the "strongest possible terms" the attack, saying the U.S. will work with the Libyan government to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. "Make no mistake, justice will be done,'' the president said, but he didn't elaborate.
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Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday
assailed President Barack Obama anew over his administration's handling
of foreign attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions, saying the president's
team sent "mixed signals to the world" in the face of violence.
Obama, who earlier condemned
"the outrageous attack" that killed U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris
Stevens and three American members of his staff, planned a statement in
the Rose Garden shortly after Romney defended his response to the
violence before knowing the diplomats were dead.
"The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come
from his mouth, but also for the words that come from his ambassadors ,
from his administration, form his embassies, from his state department,"
Romney said. "They clearly sent mixed messages to the world. The
statement that came from the administration — and the embassy is the
administration — the statement that came from the administration was a
statement which is akin to apology. And I think was a severe
miscalculation."
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt responded Tuesday night that the campaign was
"shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is
confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya,
Gov. Romney would choose to launch a political attack." The president
planned to make a statement Wednesday morning in a White House Rose
Garden appearance with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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