They no longer felt a need to protest.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

He says that is why the people started this protest, no one told them to do so, they did it themselves, and they took power without help of the political opposition.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Officials later acknowledged that there was no protest in Benghazi at the time of the attack.

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Yet absolutely no protest activity had been observed in that vicinity all day.

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And, of course, being there illegally, they could raise no protest.

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