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The Treasury Department added a senior Pakistan-based al Qaeda operative and a madrassa in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to its terrorist lists. The US Embassy in Yemen has reopened, but the US Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan remains closed. The White House denied reports that US aid to Egypt had been cut off. A State Department review of the September 2012 Benghazi attack absolved four State Dept. officials of responsibility for security failures.