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Fact Check: Libya attack

What did Obama say in the Rose Garden a day after the attack in Libya? "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this nation,"  he said.

But he did not say “terrorism”—and it took the administration days to concede that that it an “act of terrorism” that appears unrelated to initial reports of anger at a video that defamed the prophet Muhammad.

See the Fact Checker’s definitive time line on the administration’s Libya statements here.

Glenn Kessler has reported on domestic and foreign policy for more than three decades. He would like your help in keeping an eye on public figures. Send him statements to fact check by emailing him, tweeting at him, or sending him a message on Facebook.

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