Day 3
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Yemeni protesters storm US embassy in Sanaa
Reuters ^ | September 13 | Reuters Staff
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:05:22 AM by PghBaldy
They said the demonstrators smashed windows of the security offices outside the embassy before breaking through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sanaa. Security guards opened fire and there were reports of casualties on both sides but no details were immediately available.
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Anti-muslim pastor [Jones] gets attention, not credit for deadly Libya attack [story grows]
St. Petersburg - Tampa Bay Times ^ | September 13, 2012 | Ben Montgomery
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:30:56 AM by Cincinatus’ Wife
.....Citing sources in Benghazi,the think tank[Quilliam] said: “(W)e have reason to believe that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi,al-Qaida’s second in command killed a few months ago.”
A day before the attack,the leader of al-Qaida,Ayman al-Zawahiri,urged Libyans to avenge the killing,...roughly 20 militants were present,prepared for military assault with rocket-propelled grenade launchers that do not typically appear at peaceful protests.
Nonetheless,much of the blame for the protests was aimed at the poorly-made film Innocence of Muslims, directed and produced by Sam Bacile,who told the Associated Press he was an Israeli-American real estate developer who raised $5 million from Jewish donors to make the movie.
But questions quickly surfaced about Bacile’s identity. The Atlantic reported Wednesday that one of the film’s consultants,Steve Klein,said Bacile is not Israeli,and most likely not Jewish, and that the name is a pseudonym.
“I don’t know that much about him,...I can tell you this for sure,the state of Israel is not involved, Terry Jones is not involved. . . . I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign.”
That seemed to square with the opinion of Emad Mekay,a lecturer at Stanford University and an investigative journalism fellow at[UC-Berkley],who just returned from a three-month trip to Egypt.
“The protests in Egypt were sparked by allegations made by U.S.-based extremist ChristianCoptic activists that they produced an inflammatory film that they were planning to release on 9/11,”he said in a released statement. “It is not clear why they took credit for the movie. The U.S.-based extremist Copts were repeatedly on Egyptian TV and newspapers owned by former Mubarak regime figures, outing their presence in the U.S. as one reason why they succeeded in producing the movie. They were being quoted extensively on their alleged movie launch which inflamed feelings.”........
Update: 4 Rioters Dead, 34 Wounded at US Embassy in Yemen
Yemeni police Thursday shot dead four protesters and wounded 34 others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in Sana'a to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said. The White House, meanwhile, said it was doing everything it could to protect its diplomats in Yemen, where witnesses reported that roads leading to embassy were closed down as the area was calm later in the evening.
"Four people were killed and 34 others were wounded in the clashes that lasted from morning until late in the evening" in the area around the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, the official said, adding that eight of them were "seriosuly injured." Rioters chanting “O Messenger of Allah, O Mohammed...” launched a second assault on the American compound following an attack rebuffed by security forces earlier in the day.
President Abdurabuh Mansour Hadi apologized to U.S. President Barack Obama and to the American people for the acts of “a mob” and ordered an investigation into the attack.
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US Identifies Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Blamed for Attacks
DRUDGE chose his own headline (same article): FEDERAL AUTHORITIES OUT ANTI-MUSLIM FILMMAKER...
Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The official said authorities had concluded that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was behind “Innocence of Muslims,” a film that denigrated Islam and the prophet Muhammad and sparked protests earlier this week in Egypt, Libya and most recently in Yemen. It was not immediately clear whether Nakoula was the target of a criminal investigation or part of the broader investigation into the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya during a terrorist attack.
Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Thursday that Justice Department officials were investigating the deaths, which occurred during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation....