WASHINGTON (AFP) January 23, 2013, 10:00:05 PM EST
A fiery Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed Republican charges of a cover-up over the deadly Benghazi attack and warned the world needs to combat rising extremism.
Combative and at times emotional, Clinton gave no ground to congressional critics still seeking to determine why the administration at first blamed the September 11 assault on a protest outside the US mission in eastern Libya.
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