{"id":12506,"date":"2012-09-12T07:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2012-09-12T07:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:10:51","slug":"blowback-libya-al-qaeda-fighters-us-used-to-depose-gaddafi-kill-u-s-ambassador-in-benghazi-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12506","title":{"rendered":"Blowback Libya – Al Qaeda fighters US used to depose Gaddafi, kill U.S. Ambassador in Benghazi Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in Benghazi attack<\/strong>
\n12 September, 2012 – By Hadeel Al Shalchi – Reuters<\/p>\n

BENGHAZI, Libya: The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed as they rushed away from a consulate building in Benghazi, stormed by Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen blaming America for a film that they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad.<\/p>\n

Gunmen had attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the cradle of last year’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, late on Tuesday evening as another assault was mounted on the U.S. embassy in Cairo.<\/p>\n

The California-born ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was trying to leave the consulate building for a safer location as part of an evacuation when gunmen launched an intense attack, apparently forcing security personnel to withdraw.<\/p>\n

“The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets in their direction,” a Libyan official in Benghazi told Reuters. Airport sources said the bodies were due to be flown from Benghazi to Tripoli.<\/p>\n

The attack was believed to have been carried out by Ansar al-Sharia, an Al-Qaeda-style Sunni Islamist group that has been active in Benghazi, a Libyan security official said. Witnesses said the mob also included tribesmen, militia and other gunmen.<\/p>\n

The attack raised questions about the future U.S. diplomatic presence in Libya, relations between Washington and Tripoli, the unstable security situation in post-Gaddafi Libya and whether more protests might take place in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n

The film portrayed Mohammad as a fool, a philanderer and a religious fake. In one clip posted on YouTube, Mohammad was shown in an apparent sexual act with a woman. For many Muslims it is blasphemous even to show a depiction of the Prophet.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama, whose administration supported the Libyan insurgency with funds, weapons and training, branded the killing an “outrageous attack” and ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide.<\/p>\n

A Danish newspaper caused a storm of protest across Islamic nations in 2005 by printing cartoons lampooning Islam and the Prophet Mohammad in 2005, the most famous depicted him wearing a bomb in his turban. The images touched off riots in the Middle East, Africa and Asia in 2006 in which at least 50 people died.<\/p>\n

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