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Mitt Romney’s deliberate attempt to big foot the news coverage of the protests and violence in North Africa elsewhere this week obscured the most important aspect of the story from a parochial American perspective, at least: the organized assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed. In the video above, Rachel Maddow provides a tick-tock of the al Qaeda style attack in Benghazi .