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    This month began with the Justice Department filing sealed indictments against several unnamed suspects in the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi last year. This is the attack that left our ambassador to Libya and three others dead. According to an Aug. 6 Wall Street Journal article, one of these suspects is said to be Ahmed Abu Khattalah, founder of Libya’s Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia. The article stated that Abu Khattalah was seen at the compound when it was overrun.

The Bedford Moose Lodge stepped up, when no one else would. Because of that, Bedford had fireworks after all to help area residents celebrate the Independence Day weekend.
    When Bedford’s council cut funding for the fireworks from the budget, it appeared the Bedford skies would be dark for any July 4th celebration. Bedford had funded the event for several years by itself, after the county had pulled its funding.

His attorney announced last week that U.S. Army staff sergeant Robert Bales will plead guilty to the murder of 16 Afghan civilians, most of them children, in order to avoid the death penalty.
    The attack, the worst U.S. atrocity of the long occupation of Afghanistan, happened in March of 2012, when Bales left his base on two separate occasions to carry out the murders.