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Mohamed Al-Sayaghi / Reuters
Protesters climb a fence at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 13, 2012. Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Protesters attack the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, on September 13, 2012.
Hani Mohammed / AP
A protester, left, holds a white flag with Islamic inscription in Arabic that reads, "No God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet," in front of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Sept. 13, 2012.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Protesters storm the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, on September 13, 2012.
In Yemen, protesters breach the U.S. Embassy compound in the capital, Sanaa, as a wave of anti-American demonstrations sweeps across several Middle East nations. NBC's Richard Engel reports from Cairo.
NBC News staff and wire reports, Updated at 6:15 a.m. ET: Protesters angry over an obscure film critical of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, as unrest that led to the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya spread to other countries in the region.
Yemeni security forces fired into the air as demonstrators reached the embassy's grounds, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. The New York Times reported that protesters managed to set fire to a building inside the compound but were forced by security forces to pull back after trying to take furniture and computers. Read the full story.
Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed after protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, as protests spread across the region.
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what a joke how many korans were burnt when they burned their own mosques
I can't find your point in your comment anywhere.
Shoot to kill.
yep a religion of peace
FLAME THROWERS. I firmly believe the flame thrower ban should be lifted and implemented on any individuals from any nation or province who make an attempt to harm any American or any property on American soil. I understand they were banned for being an inhumane way of death, but would you classify death by rocket propelled grenade a more pleasent way of dying?
so you actually think the public is stupid enough to think this is over a film? Well i guess most of the public are so misinformed they will believe this garbage. How about calling a spade a spade.
Well what is it really about? Enlighten us? They are stupid enough to do this over a sneeze that sounds like the name of their prophet.
@PB, It's over our occupation of their land. It's over drone strikes killing innocent people. It's called blow back. How would you react if another country was bombing the US? I say we get the hell out and mind our own business. Cut off ALL foreign aid.
I agree with Bob I been saying that for years get the hell out and cut all AID to these barbarians.
We have homeless wandering the streets here & Americans who need help not some ungrateful bastards in the middle east.
Here somes the conspiracy theorists.
Islam, the scourge of the planet. Third world forever.
Where is Curtis LeMay when you really need him?
Actually about 220 volts to the fence would have stopped the whole thing cold. They war over a movie made by one of thier people, then murder our Diplomats and burn our Flag and building. Yeah, that sure induces me to respect thier religion and culture all right.
How much of this crap do we have to take??
Obama will apoligise for are embacy being there, and he will offer more aid to buy more gun's to kill more people, who don't believe in Allie Upp, or Allauh. It's a visious circle.
Jewish propoganda from an Israeli filmmaker inciting violence and once again the Goyim Americans pay the price
I agree with all the comments here. Why can't our "leader" come up with something clear and
and coherent in his response back? "Let me be clear" is his motto, yet there is nothing
CLEAR except we pay billions of dollars to these muslim/Christ hating nations.
This has everything to do with their desire to rule the world. The war on
terrorism is not going to end until we address their false sense of "love" and
their women enslaving, child abusing,
Human hating religon.
Our embassy property is sovereign land, no different than if this was located in the United States. Therefore, an attack and breach of the embassy represents the same on our country. The protestors, who weren't acting peacefully, should have been faced with deadly force particularly since the respective countries weren't controlling the situation nor probably had any desire to. Our embassies located in potentially radical muslim countries need to be either closed or fortified. This is ridiculous that our citizens should be sitting ducks. The United States government should be ashamed and embarrassed by these attacks that they didn't anticipate the possibility of such an outcome and prepare for it. I am waiting for the family of the dead ambassador to come out against the administration for being so lax.
I totally agree. You may notice my comment above. FLAME THROWERS is typed in caps. Deadly force with shock and awe is what I recommend. You are right, it is no different than attacking the continental U.S.
Why would God send only one "prophet" and this "prophet" cause so much
pain and suffering and yes falsehood. The fight is not about a 5 minute clip.
We have not changed in hundreds of years, we are still a religious tapestray that can not except each others beliefs, this is nothng new and people have a very hard time reaching out and excepting each other, the world has gotton more modern and a lot less loving and forgiving, Revenge is not an act of valor or grandeur it is a notorious belief of the past that is still with many.
this is ridiculos. they are a bunch of idiots burning the flag. that pisses me off. the embassy is over to protect the yemen ppl. the only reason there is even an embassy over there is cause their dictator from back in the day was killing everyone off (ethnic cleansing is what it was called) so yet we protect them and this is how they repay us. its very much bull@!$%#
We have the requirement of an emergency exit plan in every commercial and industrial establishment in the United States, however, we don't seem to have one at our embassies, particularly those situated in potentially radical muslim countries. Why is this?? Once again, it's because we have a lax administration that is shamefully reactive and not proactive.
Animal thugs who are using a film as an excuse to do what comes so natural to them- violence.
I agree with you, they hate Americans and will blame all Americans for what one fool did, it's their excuse to destroy anything that belongs to a country that has helped many countries to their freedom, we are foolish to help a thankless people!
Scorched Earth policy for Yemin!
bunch of cowards try burning a flag over here and see what happens to ya
Their only loyalty is to violence and killing.
obama did not want to upset his country men,what a joke he should have already sent a drone there but dont forget obama does have ties to muslims
The United States has already sent drone, battleships, soldiers, and law enforcement to investigate and apprehend the criminals who took the life of an American diplomat. The allegation you have leveled against the president is baseless.
I think Obama is relying on the one sided sentiments of the radical muslim country to identify and capture the attackers. How did that work out for us in Yemen?? I say get out of there and don't look back!
That is a false statement!
We should remove all troops and Americans from the countries that tolerate and harbor these savages. We should stop sending them foreign aid. Let the United Nations deal with them. They should receive nothing directly from the United States. If agreed upon unanimously, all of the U.N. members should pay a proportionate share of costs for aid to these countries. Why are we always left holding the bag; this just makes us look like a bunch of suckers and undermines our reputation around the world. We would garner more respect if we started to demand more and give less.
Agreed. We should also stop sending money to Israel and let them all duke it out and the we deal with the winner ... one way or the other .
Fanaticism is incendiary and destructive. The senseless killing of an American diplomat is unacceptable.
The best way to defeat a Country is from within, Obama and his cronnies are doing just that. I, once thought he was just stupid about Economics, now I, believe it is all part of his plan to bring down America, and put sharia law in it's place. We can not afford 4 more years of lack of Wisdom and cronie policies, he put's in place. Every thing he does is to apiese every left wing radical group in America, for votes of course. He say's Congress want approve his job's Bill, he's right, all it does is hire more Union workers that will vote for him. But in the long run does nothing to help the overall economy, just put's us further in debt. If he would just unleash are energy potential, it would add 10s of thousands of job's, and bring down the price of Gas.
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IN THE 5TH SLIDE--IS THAT MORON ACTUALLY HOLDING A PUPPY?????????????
I think it's their mascot. Mutthamad.
Peace loving, HELL! Kill them all and show them we can get just as crazy or crazier then them.
I think General Norman Schwartzkopf summed it all up when he talked about the terrorists that perpetrated 9/11, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." I'm sure he would apply this to these radical muslims who attacked our embassies.
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