Slain ambassador Stevens said he was on al Qaeda list

September 20, 2012 - 12:17 pm | Category: World

In the months before his killing, U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens said that he was on an al Qaeda “hit list.”

A source tells CNN that Stevens was concerned about “never-ending security threats” at the consulate in Benghazi. He also noted a rise in Muslim extremism and an increase in the influence of al Qaeda in Libya since the fall of the Qaddafi regime.

U.S. intelligence sources have labeled his death as a terrorist attack, but they don’t believe it was planned. They say militants took advantage of the chaos caused by protests over the anti-Islam film at the center of the current unrest in the Middle East.