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Hillary Clinton: “It was a terrorist attack. I called it an attack by heavily armed militants.”

On the recordJanuary 22, 2013
It was a terrorist attack. I called it an attack by heavily armed militants.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton confirms the nature of the attack as terrorism.

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