Breaking news: U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack

[ecneret]

U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack

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U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack
By Tamim Elyan and Omar al-Mosmari | Reuters – 42 mins ago.. .

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.

Gunmen had attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, a center of last year's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, late on Tuesday evening, killing one U.S. consular official. The building was evacuated.

The Libyan official said the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was being driven from the consulate building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire.

"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters.

There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington. U.S. ambassadors in such volatile countries are accompanied by tight security, usually travelling in well-protected convoys. Security officials will be considering whether the two attacks were coordinated.

Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Shagour condemned the killing of the U.S. diplomats as a cowardly act.

The consular official had died after clashes between Libyan security forces and Islamist militants around the consulate building. Looters raided the empty compound and some onlookers took pictures after calm returned.

In neighboring Egypt, demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest. Some tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said.

PORTRAYAL OF PROPHET

U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who had inflamed anger in the Muslim world in 2010 with plans to burn the Koran, said he had promoted "Innocence of Muslims", which U.S. media said was produced by an Israeli-American property developer; but clips of another film called "Mohammad, Prophet of Muslims", had been circulating for weeks before the protest.

That film portrayed Mohammad as a fool, a philanderer and a religious fake. In one clip posted on YouTube Mohammad was shown in a ***ual act with a woman.

Jones, a pastor in Florida whose latest stunt fell on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, triggered riots in Afghanistan in 2010 with his threat to burn the Koran.

Many Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet offensive and any depiction of him can cause outbursts of anger in the Islamic world and among Muslims in Europe.

Libya's interim government has struggled to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups that have refused to lay down their weapons and often take the law into their own hands.

It was clearly overwhelmed by Tuesday night's attack on the consulate that preceded the assault on the ambassador.

"The Libyan security forces came under heavy fire and we were not prepared for the intensity of the attack," said Abdel-Monem Al-Hurr, spokesman for Libya's Supreme Security Committee.

In Benghazi, unidentified men had shot at the consulate buildings, while others threw handmade bombs into the compound, setting off small explosions.

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On Wednesday morning, the compound stood empty, with passers-by freely walking in to take a look at the damage.

Walls were charred and a small fire burned inside one of the buildings. A small group of men was trying to extinguish the flames and three security men briefly surveyed the scene.

A Reuters reporter saw chairs, table and food lying alongside empty shells. Some blood stains could also be seen in front of one of the buildings. Three cars were torched.

The crowd of around 2,000 protesters in Cairo was a mixture of Islamists and teenage soccer fans known for fighting police and who played a part in the revolt that toppled Egypt's leader Hosni Mubarak last year.

The fortress-like U.S. mission is near Tahrir Square, where Egypt's uprising began and the scene of many protests since. Youths danced and chanted football songs. A Reuters reporter said they appeared to climb into the embassy compound almost as an afterthought.

"We sacrificed dozens and hundreds during the uprising for our dignity. The Prophet's dignity is more important to us and we are ready to sacrifice millions," said mosque preacher Mohamed Abu Gabal who joined the protest.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a statement late on Tuesday, confirmed the death of the U.S. consular diplomat in Libya, who was not identified, and condemned the attack there; but she made no mention of an attack on the Ambassador's car.

(Additional reporting by Hadeel Al Shalchi in Tripoli, Sarah N. Lynch and Arshad Mohammed in Washington, and Reuters reporters in Cairo and Benghazi; Writing by Edmund Blair and Tom Pfeiffer; editing by Ralph Boulton and Janet McBride)
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[Monseratto]

Idiot...best friend ata ni OB.

Tinaggal na ng YouTube yung anti-Islamist video. Paktay Google...

The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an American in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube.

Sam Bacile, a 56-year-old California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew and who said he produced, directed and wrote the two-hour film, Innocence of Muslims, said he had not anticipated such a furious reaction.

Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, Bacile, who went into hiding Tuesday, remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.

Bacile said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world.

"Islam is a cancer, period," he repeatedly said in a solemn, accented tone.

Though Bacile was apologetic about the American who was killed in Benghazi, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence.

"I feel the security system [at the embassies] is no good," said Bacile. "America should do something to change it."

[ecneret]

may protest na din sa cairo, tapos ngayon naman sa sanaa yemen meron na din.. nagkakagulo ngayon don...

[yebo]

ang isang dream job ko dati yung tiga-pindot sa nuclear missile silo.

[Gumusut_Amige]

ang isang dream job ko dati yung tiga-pindot sa nuclear missile silo.

bro saan ba sana ang unang target?

[greenlyt]

eto na!! gaganti na!!

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[timrev]

di kaya maapektuhan price ng gold oil nyan...?

[uls]

the world needs another global war

global economic reset

[Monseratto]

the world needs another global war

global economic reset

Bale wala yung Libya.

China-Japan-Korea ang mas exciting...

[vinj]

the world needs another global war

global economic reset

I can imagine both Georges sitting at their desks with a bottle of cognac, staring at a picture of Saddam and Bin Laden, reminiscing about the bad ol days.

[wowiesy]

pitik pitik.. subok which conflict will solicit world appeal / support / sympathy.. then yun ang pukpukin...

sinimulan with Iran (Straight of Hormuz)... di gano umubra.. pero at least spike ang presyo ng krudo... then ano pa ba sumunod...

minsan talaga... parang pelikula.. conspiracy (Wag The Dog ba yun movie na yun).. gawa gawa lang... setup lang.. para makuha yung desired effect..

[Monseratto]

Obama pulling away from Romney in polls but Mideast looms | Reuters

Obama pulling away from Romney in polls but Mideast looms

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is pulling away from rival Mitt Romney in polls in what might be a turning point in the U.S. presidential campaign, but volatility in the Middle East is allowing Republicans to cast the Democrat as weak on foreign policy and could threaten his momentum.

In the latest survey to show Obama ahead, a Reuters/Ipsos online poll on Thursday gave the Democrat a 7 percentage point lead, 48 percent to 41 percent, among likely voters.

Survey aggregator Real Clear Politics' average of national polls gives Obama a 3.3-point advantage while Gallup's seven-day tracking poll of registered voters has Obama leading by 6 points, one more than a Fox News survey of likely voters.

After months of a neck-and-neck race for the November 6 election, the recent data has stirred speculation that Obama may have reached a breakaway moment helped by the Democrats' convention in North Carolina last week when they laid out a case for his re-election.

"This election is far from over, and we're not inclined to make a final call until the first debate on October 3, but this seems clear: the election is slipping away from Romney," said Greg Valliere of Potomac Research Group which analyzes Washington for investors.

But in a reminder of how campaigns can shift easily, Republicans began building a strong argument against Obama for failing to stop the rise of Islamists in Egypt and Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in an attack this week.

"You'd rather be in Obama's shoes today than Romney's," said Peter Brown, a pollster for Quinnipiac University.

[uls]

pitik pitik.. subok which conflict will solicit world appeal / support / sympathy.. then yun ang pukpukin...

sinimulan with Iran (Straight of Hormuz)... di gano umubra.. pero at least spike ang presyo ng krudo... then ano pa ba sumunod...

minsan talaga... parang pelikula.. conspiracy (Wag The Dog ba yun movie na yun).. gawa gawa lang... setup lang.. para makuha yung desired effect..

attacking Iran is still on the table

it's only a question of when

[renzo_d10]

Puputukan na kaya ng US yun Libya? O sindakan muna?

[pop3corn]

The US can level the entire middle eastern area and still wala sila dependency sa oil neto. I read the 1973 -74 oil crisis, Putsa palabas Lang pala yun rationing sa US kuno, pero ang on its knees sa embargo ng rising OPEC noon eh Britain, France lol

The US is self-sufficient in oil, Grabe. Tama nga palabas Lang yan sa middle east, even if a full-blown war happens there, di maapektuhan US

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[Monseratto]

The US is self-sufficient in oil, Grabe. Tama nga palabas Lang yan sa middle east, even if a full-blown war happens there, di maapektuhan US

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The world is not the US alone. Do you think the US will ship their oil to the Philippines if they level the middle east?

[timrev]

san kaya nakukuha ni OB mga comment nya?

parang ang galing sa pagkakasabi na di malaman hehehe OBism talaga sya

ot narin:
Ob anu masasabi mo sa "Stonehenge"? raleted kaya sa libya, bengazi yun mga gumawa nun?

[pop3corn]

Eto na Lang ha kse analysis ko to coz I always read and analyze world events.

Iran and the US are allies, I'm beginning to believe so. Coz Iran is never popular in the middle east in the first place. During the six days war or the war of attrition between Israel and Egypt and probably the entire Muslim world in the 70s, if not for Iran or Turkey, the conflict could have been a full-scale nuclear war. Iran and Turkey were key Us allies back then, we all know naman talaga that the tiny Jewish state in the middle east is protected by Uncle Sam.

kaya nga walang tiwala ang Egypt, Syria, lybia, palestine, and Saddam never trusted Iran.

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Napansin ko na to eh, as you know Vatican City is the old and mighty Roman Empire. For 300 centuries since the founding fathers, young America never trusted the Vatican. And nun nagkarun ng Cuban Missle Crisis, bigla na Lang nagkarun ng diplomatic relations ang US and Vatican - and syempre add to that na JFK is catholic. That's why it's one reason why he was assassinated eh, bec, of pro right wing Americans na ayaw sa Catholic roots nya. And probably that's why Hoover is always implicated in the assassination.

Now Medyo lumayo na tayo, I mentioned roman empire bec. There are 2 known powerful empires in the world during the centuries before Jesus Christ or As we always call in the BC years. These two empires: roman in the west, Persian in the east gave balance the ancient superpowers of the world.

Roman Empire ( who worshipped Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans (ancient Pagan civilizations) BECAME The holy Roman Empire during the dark ages to the renaissance to the 19th century. Backed by Christianity

Persian Empire (who worshipped also their version of Gods against a vey powerful Pagan gods) <see the similarity> BECAME the Ottoman Empire in the same period - Backed by Islam.

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So bakit ko sinasabi to, the US, the most powerful nation in the world - pays its respects to the two most influential empires of the ancient world - and that is Persia - modern day Iran and Rome - modern day Vatican and its branches - Britain, France and Germany.


So yan naka kita natin ngaun, palabas Lang yan. There is a reason why it's only Iran who is allowed to have nuclear weapons. Sa Europe nga, the seat of Roman power is never Rome - its Britain and France ang US rehabilitated Germany - they share the power of the once mighty Roman empire, with the Vatican at its head - pero syempre the Vatican maintains that it's on the religion side. Eh di ba Iran is the seat of the Muslim world talaga - like us Christians, the Muslim world also has two factions - the Shiite and the Suunis, sa tin naman Mga Kristyano - It's Catholic vs the Protestants.

Sa Iran Lang sa pagkaalam Hindi Grabe ang alitan ng 2 factions ng Muslim world, its as if they are the educated bunch and therefore, worthy of having nuclear weapons by virtue of the powers that be .

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[Gerbo]

The reason why Iran is not "popular" in the Arab world is that of being a Shi'ite sect. Unlike most of the Muslims in the region who are Sunnis. The conflict went all the way back to the ascendancy of the caliphs particularly the birthright of Mohammed's bloodline to lead.

The division of the Roman Empire gave rise to the Orthodox church based in Constantinople (present day Istanbul in Turkey) and the one based in Rome (the precursor of the modern-day Catholicism which in turn survived a schism from the reform movement that give rise to the Protestants).

The conflict of the Jews (including present-day Israel) with Iran also have deep historical roots going back to ancient time. Persians (the precursors of the modern-day Iran) have at various times conquered the the lands considered holy by 3 religions.

Therefore, the animosities are not recent. Iran being a minority in the Arab world and geographically surrounded by the Sunnis and a mortal enemy of Israel values nuclear power as an armed deterrent. Of course, many nations do not want to share "the fire that once been regarded as the property of the gods".

This role of Prometheus is now taken by Russia who wants to be geopolitically relevant. A supposedly inferior god (a G8 member) but a god nonetheless (possession of a nuclear arsenal).

We, as mere mortals, in this drama are reduced to spectators (and in some occasions, cheering squads).

[Monseratto]

Ayan na naman yung tsikot troll, Alien conspiracy...