Benghazi: Episode 1 - The Dictator
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How a prison massacre carried out under Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, set the stage for the Benghazi attack.
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| 1:20.4 | On the night of September 11, 2012, four Americans were killed in Benghazi, a city in Libya on the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 1:28.6 | What potentially happened in Libya, in the city of Benghazi, not only did the attackers storm the building in Benghazi. |
| 1:33.7 | The attack began when a group of armed assailants broke into a diplomatic compound operated by the State Department. It ended nearly eight hours later with the bombing of a secret CIA base |
| 1:39.1 | nearby. First they attacked it with RPG rifles, then they opened fire on it with machine |
| 1:44.0 | guns. |
| 1:44.9 | Among the victims was the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. |
| 1:48.9 | And again, his name is John Christopher Stevens, and he was born in Northern California in 1960. |
| 1:54.2 | Stevens had been posted in Libya on and off for the better part of five years. |
| 1:58.9 | On the night of the attack, he died of smoke inhalation |
| 2:01.4 | after the assailants set fire to the villa |
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