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U.S. Marines guarding the U.S. Embassy in Cairo were ordered to lock up their weapons in the arms room while the angry mob outside the embassy was protesting and burning the American flag.
At least six protesters from the mob got over the wall and inside the embassy compound. The U.S. embassy in Cairo is sovereign U.S. territory.
At the same time that the Marine Security Guards protecting the U.S. Embassy in Cairo were ordered to lock up their weapons in the arms room, further instructions came that directed the U.S. Marines to surrender the embassy to Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government.
Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, was safe and sound in Washington D.C. during the Cairo embassy siege. Coincidentally, U.S. Army General Carter Ham, commander of AFRICOM, was also in Washington that fateful evening.