TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday.
They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob guns and rocket propelled grenades.
The three Libyan officials who confirmed the deaths were 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 State Department said Tuesday that one American was killed in the attack. It has not confirmed the other deaths.
The attack on the Benghazi consulate took place as hundreds of protesters in neighboring Egypt scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down and replaced the American flag with a black Islamic banner.
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Thankless muslim assholes. We helped them eliminate Ghaddafi now they murder our ambassador. Exactly what was OBummer doing, apoligizing for the Ambassador getting in the way of that RPG. He is an embarrasment to our country.
If THIS doesn't show the American people that oblameo has NO IDEA about foreign policy, nothing will.
Time to rise up against ALL muslims EVERYWHERE!
Time to evict ALL out of OUR country!
I'm so tired of the coddling of these godless, despicable pig screwers!
I'm with you on all accounts but they are not pig screwers they are camel and sheep screwers.Also you have to include McQuack McCain along with Oblameo on kissing the asses of muslims and muslim terrorists.
Protect our pigs and let them graze where ever a mosque will be built.
I had to edit a couple times before I found a way to describe them that was allowed. Besides, they touch pig, they go to hell!
My kid came up with a good idea. Take bacon and throw it around the entrance to their mosques! They can't get in then!! Can't touch it to remove it either!
McQuackers kissed their asses, but he doesn't have the power. It's bad enough he does it, but it's not like he's the PRESIDENT doing it.
Did you see the LSM trying to make the attacks about Romney today? How sadder can the media get?
The only bad thing about bacon is they would find some muslim sympathizer who would pick it up for them.Although McQuack doesn't have the power when he sides with Obutthole it makes Obutthole look strong.As far as the media goes I listen with 2 grains of salt because we know that they are in the tank for Obunghole Example: Mathews,Gregory and Anamopboard(closest I could come to spelling the witches name.by the way I see Rahm will give in to your teachers union and You know your taxes will go up.seeks is it true that Rahm assholerod and Oblameo use to play hide the weeny in the steam rooms.
Would still keep them from their "prayers" till they can get it cleaned up. All of it!
And yes, it's WELL known in the Chicago area about Man's Country.
Hey Seeks, now there you go! Great idea! And if more people saw these PIG SCREWERS, CAMEL HUMPERS AND AND SHEEP DEFILERS, AS THEY ARE, WE ACTUALLY MIGHT GET THIS FILTH OUT OF OUR COUNTRY! I do wish though, that this man, who sounds like he was a decent and good man, had not been the one to have to die there…….instead, why could it not have been CANKLES CLINTON? After all, it was SHE who was all for our getting involved in that shite hole there! She would have not been greatly missed by a lot of American people, certianly not myself. No American who has any decency in themselves should be even close to those litterboxes, which are full of human excrement, with legs, instead of the Real Thing! Only those like Cankles and Obutthole, and Rahm, Witholder, Piglousy, Boner Bohner, and John “not so supreme court” whathisface and the like, should be sent there, NOT allowed there, BUT SENT INTO HARMS WAY WITH EVERY INTENTION OF ALLOWING THE CAMEL HUMPERS AND THEIR KIND DO WHAT THEY DO BEST! Get rid of these useless TRAITORS for us, and that way, none of us can be blamed for their demise! A really good solution to our problems, if we could manage it.
This is an outrage. Why is Obama still doing so well in the polls. Do millions of people still believe this kind of idealism in government is possible. History is filled with examples of "Big Government" style regimes that eventually lead to massive evil, enslavement, low productivity, low creativiy, low inventions and complete suppression of the people and in many cases massive killing. I remember Michelle Obama saying a very chilling statement that many cheered on, she said, "Obama will require you to work, he wil require you to change your traditions your values and…." she went on and on to what Obama will require you to do." In essence, she was talking in "double speak" but she was professing how America will change under his "New America." I am told the movie 2016 is chilling.