Photo: U.S. Govt Tripoli — U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens is confirmed to have died in Tuesday's conflict in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV reported Wednesday.
Hundreds of protesters, angered by an alleged U.S.-made movie that insults Prophet Mohammed, broke into the U.S. consulate building in Benghazi on Tuesday night.
The U.S. ambassador, who was on a short trip to Benghazi, died from suffocation as a result of smoke inhalation, as protestors set fire at the scene. Three staffers were also killed during the fierce clashes.
"One American staff member has died and a number have been injured in the clashes," Libya's Supreme Security Committee spokesman Abdel-Monem Al-Hurr was quoted as saying by the news channel on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed that "a staff member" has died in Tuesday's conflict.
On Tuesday, several thousands of Egyptians protested in front of the U.S. embassy in the capital Cairo against the same movie, allegedly sponsored by Americans but not by U.S. government or Hollywood industries.
The Egyptian security forces have intensified their deployment around the building. Seven ambulances have been sent to the scene, but no injuries were reported.
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During the Muammar Ghadhafi reign, the CIA arrested Libyans outside Libya as jihhadist suspects, tortured them, and then turned over to Gadhafi! Those militants and trained youths became leaders of militias that overthrew Gadhafi, like Abdelhakim Belhaj, the rebel commander who captured the Libyan capital Tripoli from Gadhafi forces, and now an elected politician and party leader.
The U.S. help to overthrow Gadhafi did not make Libyans a pro-American brood. They are Arabs, and there is no pro-American Arab in the world -except those autocratic Arabs leaders that depend on the U.S. military back up to suppress their people and stay in power. Anyone who might think "We have helped Libyans liberate themselves, now they are - or should be- our friends is wrong!" They don't think like us, and we are in war with militant Islamists that most Muslims consider as a U.S. war on Islam!
The Arab anti-American hostility started with the creation of Israel in 1948, boiled over with the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and had been boiling since with the Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2008, the Israeli attack on the Food for Gaza flotilla and the killing of 10 Turkish citizens in 2010, and the long U.S. support for the brutal Mubarak and Abdullah Saleh regimes. Add to that the burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, the constant U.S. threat of war against Iran, and now an American movie insulting the prophet Mohammed, and the explosive protests in Libya and Egypt shouldn't be a surprise. Nikos Retsos, retired professor
Islam is not a cancer but ignorance surely is -- with education being the only cure. Many Islamists have been deprived of their basic freedoms for so long they actually do not know or understand what they are. Freedom of religion forbids the government from interfering with our religious beliefs. Freedom of speech forbids the government from interfering with our expression of any beliefs -- even those that are clearly wrong, offensive, against the government or against the prevalent religion. If one of us thus decides to make an offensive film against another's religion, he has the freedom to do so. And since the government cannot stop him, it also cannot be blamed for the offending film. This point must sound strange to those whose entire lives have been controlled by their government or their religion. However, tolerating the offensive conduct of others is the cornerstone of all freedom. To be sure, countries that only recently have espoused democracy have much work ahead of them. First and foremost they need to educate the masses on the workings of individual freedoms. The media should join in this important task because democracy depends on a free media. Let the blood of our good Ambassador then write the first chapter of the Arab textbook for freedom. And let that chapter again begin with the preamble “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.”
In the context of what the commenter says; the Americans are clearly deluded if they think tha the down fall of Gadaffibis the emerging of some bastion for American glory!.I heard a comment by an Arab in London adamant that all Libya is pro USA what a joke!!!!!!!.What we see in the USA is the sentiment of the Americans towards Islam. The democratic cpnvention held a special declaration for the zionist to have Jerusalem as thier cpitol?? what amazed me is that these people have no connection niether thru DNA or any African or Arabic onnection. I will reuterate history the ROmans stole the ture israelite religion giving to thier proxies to become the pharisees and so on ; history teaches us that the true prophet CHRIST was opposed to all of these people and was in constant conflict. He did not rtecognise these people they were not of AFRICAN BLOOD NOR WERE THEY BROWN IN COLOUR THEY HAD NO MELANIN SO HE KNEW THEY WERE UNTRUE. ISLAM IS THE TRUE RELIGION DEDICATED TO THE REAFFIRMMATION OF THE ISRAELITE TRADITION. AS WE KNOW IT WAS JERUSALEM THAT WAS WHERE THE PROPHET ASCENDED TO HEAVEN2. Whether or not the west wants to accept the truth what we do is that they are trying desperately to reassign history to themselves and they as the demagogues of our times' What we have is people who can not find themselves anywhere in the pages of science or history thier whole perception of time and history is so misinformed they try to isolate the truth so they can contiue to dominate world evenmts. They now find that they are losers bullies with no reality of consciousness no righetousness no morality. They asume that people round the world are receptive to trhier dmeigodisms' they arev facist of the truest form. Their policies are based on theft exploitation extortion and fraud. We again must look at thier beginnings, slavery durg trafficing wars murders theft swindles lies hypocrisy. They used democracy as paltfrom and propoganda tool round the world". What they thought would clearly not be overstood by the masses of people round the planet has been the complete opposite. What people are now seeing is the truth that is America; they are Satnist, they are workers of inquity and abomination they are far from truth tellers, they are dictators, war mongers and the worlds biggest liars an hypocrits. When people agree with a solution to a problem the west NATO seems to always'!! have a differnt interpretation to what is clearly sighted. We find that these people have thier own understanding they listen to the sounds of thier voices only!!!!!!!and no on else on the planet matters as long as they have it thier way!!!> Obviously this is not working there are no people in the EAST who feels that they are in any way the better off with these scroundrels. They are so stupid they start conflict in Syria; ?? Well this is thier preview to a new Syria !!!!!!!!!!!! Egypt was never during the revlution professing any love for the USA, this is what the Saudis want longside the Qataris wheter they will get thier wish is another thing . ISrael is big denominater who is pushing fotr these proxy wars and they are suhing so hard they will themselves fall of the cliff.Tehy are not whom they calim to be and they deserve no sympathty from the world, they are part of the American hegemony adnd they all pursue domination in the region. Israel is component that has nuclear germ warfare missiles they are not to eb trusted as we can sight the deeadly and disasterous way they treat the brothers and sisters in Palestine" "Whatever will be will be,"ALLAH" will let his will be known"
so sad what they did to them.. the world is at a turning point where men are becoming evil daily...
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”
Replies the scorpion: “It’s my nature…”
A report this morning, “Libyans Remember Ambassador Stevens“. It describes how Ambassador Stevens was involved in helping those who fought against Gadhafi.
And now that Gadhafi is gone, in their gratitude, they murdered him.
Because it is their nature.
- Steven den Beste, "The Scorpion and the Frog and the Jihadist"
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