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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
• The officials confirmed that a sealed complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington against an unspecified number of individuals in the September 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. One official said those charged included Ahmed Abu Khattala, the head of a Libyan militia. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss a sealed filing.
• The New York Times reported late Tuesday that Khattala had been charged with murder and that he has said in an interview that he is innocent. At least two other foreigners have been charged in the attacks, the newspaper said.
• Earlier, CNN, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal reported that unspecified counts had been filed and sealed in the Benghazi attack.
• "The department's investigation is ongoing. It has been, and remains, a top priority," said Justice Department spokesman Andrew C. Ames, who declined to comment further.
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Fort Hood suspect says, 'I am the shooter,' prosecutors detail attack as trial gets underway
• FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford had waited for the moment he would face the man who killed 13 of his colleagues in the 2009 massacre here. He'd prepared to confront Maj. Nidal Hasan, vowing to answer questions without fear in his heart.
• A showdown, however, never happened.
• When the time came to testify Tuesday, Lunsford recounted for jurors how he had played dead, hoping the Army psychiatrist wouldn't shoot him. The retired soldier, who was hit seven times, showed jurors where on his body Hasan's bullets had struck him.
• But Hasan -- the America-born, 42-year-old defendant who is acting as his own attorney -- didn't ask Lunsford a single question.
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