US Consulate Hit in Libya
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
US Consulate Hit in Libya
An armed man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi late on September 11, 2012. An armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam, attacked the US consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the building, killing one American, witnesses and officials said. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
CAIRO (TheBlaze/AP) — Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American diplomat, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.
It was the first such assaults on U.S. diplomatic facilities in either country, at a time when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to overcome the turmoil following the ouster of their longtime leaders, Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak in uprisings last year.
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.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed that one State Department officer had been killed in the protest at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. She strongly condemned the attack and said she had called Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif “to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya.”
Now, I know everyone has heard the news about the US Consulate in Libya but I want to put in my two cents…
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Now, We (American’s) have US Consulates all over the world and it was my impression that those consulates are on US soil and protected by the US military.
Well, if that’s true then…
Why??? was this US consulate being guarded by Libyan’s
Why??? weren’t the US Marine Corp. USMC protecting it… or any of the armed services for that matter…
We know that there have been renegades that have tied bombs to their chest, they went onto US bases and shoot them up and more…
We have to protect what is ours
In the news they stated that there we’re 4 Libyans guarding the US consulate and I think that our military (the leaders not the solders) have let us down if they are not protecting our soil on foreign soil with the US military.
I want to hear what you think… so please Tweet, post on Facebook, or use your Google +1 to tell others about the questions I have raised, and the word will get around and that’s how I will know what you think… or you can leave your feed back on this post.
What do you have to say on this issue???
We have to protect what’s ours!
