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    Molly Henneberg reports from Washington, D.C.

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And a Fox News alert on some disturbing new details that are coming out on the attack on our consulate in Libya.

According to a report that came out by the Wall Street Journal.

The deadly ambush may have been orchestrated by militants freed from prisons during the Arab Spring uprisings.

Now US lawmakers are demanding some answers on this from the administration.

My Henneberg joins us last season.

-- one militant in particular is very worrisome to US officials who got out one of those prisons who is that.

-- his name is Mohammed Jamal Abu not freed from an Egyptian prison after the uprising last spring.

And now is establishing.

Terror training camps in the Libyan Desert according to -- a former US official told the Wall Street Journal.

Here's what we know about it not it's about 45 years old he now lives in Libya he learned bomb making in Afghanistan in the eighties.

He has been part of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement may have been one of its leaders.

And western officials believe he's building his own terror network called the -- network.

He also has ties Imad Al zawahiri the head -- al-Qaeda solitary was the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad when a -- was part of it.

A modest said to be asking zawahiri if he can start an al-Qaeda affiliate with financing from al-Qaeda in Yemen.

And it was fighters loyal to Ahmad some of them anyway who apparently trained at his terror camp in Libya and then helped attacked the US consulate in Ben Ghazi.

On September 11.

So why are all of this paints a picture of being much -- active movement going on on the ground in Libya.

Then I think most people were aware of and it raises a lot of questions about what the administration -- where they where.

Of this growing threat coming from Libya so what are members of congress say about this.

They have the exact same question that you just admire and the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee congressman Mike Rogers.

He didn't comment on not directly but he has said the US needs to deal with this as a terrorist attack.

It was just too well planned.

To have have justice to be a spontaneous event and again the concern news.

If we don't treat this what it is it terrorist attack against that the United States.

And deal with it appropriately -- doing nothing and still debating.

For some political interpretation is not healthy for the national security interest of the United States.

And lawmakers want secretary of state Hillary Clinton to -- and -- present more information on the threat reporting coming out of Libya before the attack.

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