Benghazi: Episode 2 - We Will Stay Here
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Libya is swept up in a wave of revolution, and an American diplomat makes his mark on Benghazi.
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| 1:14.3 | Previously on Fiasco. Previously on Fiasco. |
| 1:20.5 | He's been called the world's number one terrorist, a madman who exports terrorism around the world. |
| 1:22.0 | Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. |
| 1:27.3 | The first time in almost a quarter century, the U.S. has diplomatic ties with Libya. |
| 1:31.4 | We were sent out there and told just to go find what you can find. |
| 1:38.7 | Chris Stevens was always willing to open a conversation with people from pretty scary Islamist backgrounds. Nobody demonstrated or protested in Gaddafi's Libya, but they didn't really care anymore. |
| 1:45.3 | They'd lost everything. |
| 1:49.6 | Hamis Gaddafi arrived in Houston, Texas on January 20, 2011. |
| 1:55.3 | While in town, Hamis, one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, was scheduled to visit a Nassau facility and the port of Houston. |
| 2:05.8 | There's a photo from the trip in which Camis can be seen smiling with the chairman of the Houston Port Commission and ten other men in suits. |
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