On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, U.S. diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt came under
attack.
A Libyan security official reported an American was shot to death as protesters burned the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and in Cairo, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy walls and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner.
The attack was blamed on a movie released in the United States attacking the Prophet Muhammad. A trailer of the movie by Sam Bacile, an American citizen, was posted on social media Youtube on the release of the movie.
A 14-minute trailer of the movie that sparked the protests, posted on the website YouTube in an original English version and another dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres.
http://youtu.be/yL5OSV5jO5o
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has strongly condemned the behavior of the group responsible for the attack on the embassies.
"Some have sought to justify this vicious behaviour as a response to inflammatory material posted on the internet," said a statement by Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, who also confirmed the death of the consulate employee.
and
here: Clinton said: "Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind."
The group has vowed to remain at the Embassy until the movie is removed. The United States must tread softly because they do not have enough troops on the ground and releasing drones into the area will only cause the Muslim community to mobilize.
Update.Four Americans were killed.
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