U.S. ambassador to Libya, three staff killed in rocket attack

Reuters ^ | Wed Sep 12, 2012

[Lonely Bull]

BEIRUT, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said.

[9YearLurker]

This report says it was Christopher Stevens.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9537683/US-ambassador-to-Libya-killed-in-attack-on-Benghazi-consulate.html

[Jet Jaguar]

http://libya.usembassy.gov/principal.html

[ConfusedSwede]

I am sad to confirm that it seems to be that man.

Norwegian press posted a picture of him when he was pulled out of the building.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[John W]

Why did it take so long for the specific news about the murder of an ambassador to come out?

[BIV]

I read that his name was Chris Stevens. He was a young guy.

[mkjessup]

But the "pure" conservatives around here will keep up their attempts to destroy Romney and ensure Obama gets elected again.... God help us.

Amazing isn't it. Watching some (not all but some) conservative purists morphing into the equivalent of "the enemy within", their words and deeds working to nobody's benefit except for the re-election of that filthy little Communist f*ck in the White House.

God help us INDEED.

[9YearLurker]

Here he was in a government video when he was named to the post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SIIxholL4

[deks]

‘US ambassador killed’ in Libya protest - live updates

LIVE• Four Americans reported dead in attack on consulate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/sep/12/libya-egypt-attacks-muhammad-film-live

[txhurl]

Think hillary had anything to do with the tardy reporting?

[nuconvert]

Yes. I just posted an ‘extended’ article with more info and a link to a video on Chris Stevens.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929787/posts

[deks]

Ambassador’s bodyguards also reported killed

Al-Jazeera has some more details of the consulate attack:

The ambassador was paying a short visit to Benghazi when the consulate came under attack on Tuesday night, Al Jazeera’s Suleiman Idrissi reported from the eastern Libyan city.

He died of suffocation during the attack, along with two US security personnel who were accompanying him, security sources told Al Jazeera. Another consulate employee, whose nationality could not immediately be confirmed, was also killed.

Two other staffers were injured, Idrissi reported.

The bodies of the dead were transported to the Benghazi international airport, to be flown to Tripoli and then onwards to a major US airbase in Germany.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/sep/12/libya-egypt-attacks-muhammad-film-live

[Popman]

——More to come, maybe, but Obama is going to have to do something now-——

Sorry, but your comment made me LOL...

One thing about Obama...when it comes to his core principles....he is unshakable.....as he states in his “ book”

” I will side with Islam “

He will do nothing except trot PIAPS out....to make some meaningless statement...

[gotribe]

Our eunuch-in-chief will respond with a titter.

[AlexW]

“Does anybody know why the Ambassador was in Benghazi and not Tripoli.”
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I gather that there is a consulate office in Benghazi.
I would assume that the ambassador would make visits to the consulate.

[bytesmith]

Romney will castrate him if he doesn’t respond.

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Good luck Romney. They can’t find Zero’s birth certificate either.

[deks]

Former deputy national security adviser Elliot Abrams and renowned Middle East scholar Barry Rubin lambasted the U.S. Embassy in Cairo’s response to Tuesday’s attack on it by Egyptian protesters.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929761/posts

[Bon mots]

Obama will immediately apologize.
...on his knees.