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Notice that the Washington Post kept referring to the attackers as “protesters” when they were clearly Islamists. In both attacks the Government did nothing to stop them, In fact we learn that the Egyptian intelligence service knew of the attack in advance. Obama has so far been silent. The State department put the blame on the movie and not the perpetrators. This is all Obama’s fault for welcoming the MB in the name of democracy. Let me remind you, Obama Administration Aids Muslim Brotherhood With $1Billion just yesterday to buy U-boats.. In March of 2012 Obama Bypassed Congress, Gives $1.5 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood. Ted Belman
The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames Tuesday during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States. An American member of the State Department died in the protests.
By Michael Birnbaum and Haitham Tabei, WaPo
EL-ARISH, Egypt — U.S. diplomatic compounds came under attack in two Muslim countries on Tuesday, with a State Department employee killed in the assault on a consulate in Libya.
“I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement. “As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack.”
The violence in Benghazi followed protests in neighboring Egypt, where a group of protesters scaled the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday evening and entered its outer grounds, pulled down an American flag, then tried to burn it outside the embassy walls, according to witnesses.
In both Cairo and Benghazi, protesters said they were demonstrating against a U.S.-released film that insulted the prophet Muhammad.
Clinton said late Tuesday night that she had called Libyan President Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf “to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya. President Magariaf expressed his condemnation and condolences and pledged his government’s full cooperation.”
She added that although the United States “deplores” any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, “there is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.”
The name of the State Department employee was not available.
“We are, obviously, working with Egyptian security to try to restore order at the embassy,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. “We all want to see peaceful protests, which is not what happened outside the U.S. mission, so we’re trying to restore calm now.”
Nuland played down any significance to U.S.-Egyptian relations. “I think the bigger picture is one of the United States supporting Egypt’s democratic transition and the Egyptian government very much welcoming and working with us on the support that we have to offer,” she said.
Referring to the Benghazi incident, Nuland said, “We condemn in strongest terms this attack.”
A Libyan security officer said that in addition to the American killed, at least one other had been wounded. The report by Wanis al-Sharef, an interior minister, could not be immediately confirmed.
In Cairo, relatively few embassy employees were inside when the protesters hopped the wall because many had gone home early, according to a U.S. official speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly about the developing incident. Later in the evening, the Egyptian military sealed the entrances to the embassy to secure it from the ongoing protest, witnesses reported. Protesters were still outside the Cairo embassy early Wednesday, but Nuland later said that police had cleared the remainder.
A spokesman for the embassy said that Ambassador Anne Patterson was out of Egypt on unrelated business and that all embassy employees were “safe and accounted for.”
The security breach in Cairo appeared to catch both the United States and Egyptian security forces by surprise, even though the protest was announced in advance. Shortly before the protesters went over the wall, witnesses said, few Egyptian police or military officers were nearby.
Local media estimated that about 2,000 people participated in the protest, though in video footage of the incident only about a dozen appeared to have scaled the embassy wall. The protesters on the wall replaced the U.S. flag with a black flag with an inscription that read, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet.”
A spokesman for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi did not respond to telephone calls requesting comment. “The security of embassies and providing protection for diplomatic delegates is a responsibility of the utmost priority for official authorities in any country,” the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Protests at the U.S. Embassy are a regular feature of life in Cairo, where many people are suspicious of the United States and resent it for its support for Israel. But no previous protests have actually breached the embassy compound.
The embassy is in central Cairo, just a few blocks from Tahrir Square, and is a complex of several buildings surrounded by high white walls. Usually, police check vehicles in the streets surrounding the embassy, and cars must pass through moveable barriers.
Many protesters at the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday said they were associated with the Salafist political parties al-Nour and al-Asala.
Protesters condemned a video clip that depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a series of humiliating scenes. A controversial Cairo television host, Sheikh Khaled Abdallah, aired clips from the video on an Islamic-focused television station on Saturday, and the same video clips were posted to YouTube on Monday.
Organizers at the embassy protest told the Associated Press that they’d begun planning the protest last week when a controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, released a trailer for a movie called “Muhammad.”Depicting the prophet at all is considered deeply offensive by Muslims.
“We are speaking out and will never be tolerant toward any curses for our prophet,” said Moaz Abdel Kareem, 37, who had a long beard typical of followers of the Salafist movement and was carrying a black flag.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy in Egypt had condemned insults to religion, saying in a statement that “we firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”
A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Morsi is a member, said that the United States should do a better job of protecting Islam.
“It isn’t a matter of freedom of speech,” Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Gozlan said. “It’s a matter of a holy Islamic symbol.”
Americans will never stand for restrictions on their freedom of speech.
Sarah Palin’s facebook post is how a real leader responds to such a situation. Not by groveling and apologizing, but standing in stalwart defense of American liberties.
Of course the scumbags at WAPO blame Israel. Supposedly our support for Israel, such as it is, is the reason commonly given for the war islam is waging against us. Ignored is the 1400 year history of islam waging jihad against unbelievers or the persecution of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists etc. being waged by islam around the world today, which have nothing to do with Israel.