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VIDEO: US Ambassador Killed in Libya Over Video Mocking Muhammad

Posted By: Suzette Francis · 9/12/2012 7:29:00 AM

Libyan officials say the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have been killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
    
The officials say Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff. The protesters were firing gunshots and rocket propelled grenades.
    
All of the officials, three in all, hold senior security positions in Benghazi.
    
They are deputy interior minister for eastern Libya Wanis al-Sharaf; Benghazi security chief Abdel-Basit Haroun; and Benghazi city council and security official Ahmed Bousinia.
    
The attack seems to stem from the words and actions of Pastor Terry Jones of Florida, probably best known for threatening to burn copies of the Koran. Tuesday, he released a video promoting a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammed.

A demonstration was also held in Cairo on Tuesday, in which protesters attacked the US embassy and tore down the US flag, which was flying at half mast to mark the 9/11 attacks.

(w files from the Associated Press)

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  1. proton posted on 09/12/2012 08:11 AM
    Imagine if the west attacked these people every time a Christian or Jewish symbol was mocked, burned, etc. It'd be WW3. These murderers are barbarians and should be treated as such.
  2. Earl posted on 09/12/2012 09:49 AM
    Just a little blow-back for the arrogant peace prize winning US lead-from-behind coalition that ousted the sovereign government of Libya in a so-called humanitarian bombing and Al Quaeda support scheme!

    The only solution is a worldwide ban all forms of religious indoctrination for all persons under the age of 18, on pain of death.

    The adults can do whatever they want. But the indoctrination into cult-like beliefs from birth always has been the problem.

    Sadly this will never happen. Long before so humanity will unleash the nuclear monster and destroy itself.

    This world is spiralling backward toward a position not unlike it was in just before WWII, and also very much akin to medieval times or the dark ages. Such hatred based on race or creed, such little respect for human life - the US Nobel Peace Prize winning president, using drones to assasinate 16 year olds with no evidence, no trial, nothing but conjecture. Israel willing to murder thousands and lose thousands of their own for the mere suspicion that her neighbour is trying to achieve parity in arms. What a sick demented world we are creating for ourselves and nobody seems to give a crap.

    Enjoy what you have for life, suck up to a sky-dweller if you wish to waste your time that way, kiss the prophet's ring, kill for books and thoughts, all that. I mean really, isn't that what life is all about?
    1. Ray posted on 09/12/2012 11:13 AM
      @Earl I say nuke the whole god damn lot!

      Imagine what will happen when Iran finally has a working nuclear bomb.

      As far as Earls comments I suppose you condemn stoning women for having been raped.

      Deny young girls the right to education.

      The selling of women.

      Quite a culture you back there Earl.

      When is the last time a Muslim won a Noble prize for anything?

      Its culture based on killing those that do not subscribe to Mohamed teachings.
  3. Earl posted on 09/12/2012 11:41 AM
    @Ray: When Iran has the bomb it will be same as Pakistan.

    I condone no violence though I did suggest the consequences for religious indoctrination of youths should be death it was only in the same vein as the current discourse - it would seem, for whatever reason, that we no longer value life for what it is and would kill people without trial without evidence with no presumption of innocence.

    Pakistani are far more extremist than Irani.

    Honestly if all this blind faith held for invisible sky-dwellers, gods, prophets what have you since hundreds, some thousands of years ago were to end we would all be far better off for it.

    This is blowback, the US or it's allies will find a way to blame Syria or Iran, so as to justify more killing.

    The most recent Muslim to win the Nobel prize was Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.

    Just because I do not back blind faith and it's associated murderous life-disrespecting ways does not imply I support actions by humans that are detrimental to the well being of others. Grow up.

    In not so distant past the Catholic church with it's great Pontiff hired private armies to spread the word, via violence, that is the crusades. This idiocy and disrespect for life and human rights is not new nor by any means confined to any particular cult.
  4. enix83 posted on 09/12/2012 12:54 PM
    This kind of video only insults religious practitioners and give ammunition to radicals
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