Killed in Libya: Ambassador Chris Stevens.
US Ambassador Killed in Libya: Yemeni Protesters Storm US Embassy
Commentary by Stephen Cook: You can call me a sceptic, but I’d much prefer you call me an optimist. I am a Lightworker, after all.
Something just isn’t sitting comfortably for me with regards this sudden anti-US feeling in both Libya and Yemen – and oh, so close to being 11 years since 9/11.
If the ‘dark’ could do what they did on September 11, 2001 – killing thousands, creating panic and fear, and receding basic freedom and human rights throughout the world – why wouldn’t they sacrifice one man to start a new ‘religious’ frenzy of fear and xenophobia?
This is all too predictable for me. Tragic, but predictable.
Story 1: US Ambassador to Libya Killed During Attack
By Bloomberg reporters, Sydney Morning Herald – September 12, 2012
Libya’s Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur said the US ambassador to the country, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed during an attack on the consulate in Benghazi yesterday.
“I condemn the cowardly and criminal act that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was subjected to and the killing of the ambassador and his companions,” Abu Shagur said on his Twitter account.
The death of the ambassador was reported by Sky News Arabia, citing unidentified people. The channel said three other people were killed. The State Department confirmed a diplomat’s death without identifying the victim.
In Cairo, the government placed about 400 security forces around the embassy, where demonstrators scaled the walls yesterday, as smaller protests continued today.
The violence, which recalls the worldwide protests in 2005 after a Danish newspaper published cartoons depicting Mohamed, follows the revival of Islamist politics in both countries after uprisings last year ousted longtime leaders.
American air power helped Libya’s insurgents overthrow Muammar Qaddafi, while in Egypt the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood has strained a three-decade alliance with the U.S.
Yemeni soldiers stand guard as protestors demonstrate Photo: AP
Story 2: Yemeni Protesters Storm US Embassy
Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, following the death of the US ambassador to Libya in protests on Tuesday night.
By Reporters, The Telegraph, UK – September 13, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/9540442/US-am...
Protesters torched a number of diplomatic vehicle as security forces used water cannons and warning shots in a bid to drive them out.
Police had earlier fired warning shots to disperse few thousands of protesters as they approached the main gate of the mission.
“O, Allah’s messenger… O, Mohammed,” protesters chanted.
Before storming the embassy compound on Thursday, the demonstrators removed the embassy’s sign on the outer wall and set tires ablaze. Once inside the compound, they brought down the US flag and burned it.
Yemen is home to Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula and the United States is the main foreign supporter of the Yemeni government’s counterterrorism campaign.
The government on Tuesday announced that al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader in Yemen was killed in an apparent US air strike, a major blow to the terror network.
In Cairo, police used tear gas against a stone- and bottle-throwing crowd protesting outside the US embassy.
The health ministry said 13 people were injured during sporadic clashes through the night outside the embassy.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi slammed “attacks” on the Muslim prophet Mohammed, while also stressing that he condemned violence.
“We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who… insult our prophet,” Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels, said in remarks broadcast by Egyptian state television.
“(But) it is our duty to protect our guests and visitors from abroad… I call on everyone to take that into consideration, to not violate Egyptian law… to not assault embassies,” he added.
http://the2012scenario.com/2012/09/us-ambassador-killed-in-libya-yemeni-protesters-storm-us-embassy/
Comments
stench
My intuition is just sounding loud alarm bells too. This unrest feels like it is being provoked by those interests who would like to start WWIII. In fact, the stench is unbelievable. Feels like a CIA black op.
Absolutely!
This is my exact impression as well! Very sad that most of the general population is probably unaware of this attempt by the cabal to start WWIII.