Holy Shite - Richard Engel says it was the US ambassador

[malaise]

who was killed in Libya - died of smoke inhalation.

[Firebrand Gary]

1. If this is true, its gonna get hot real quick!

[TeamPooka]

4. this is not good.

[bigdarryl]

2. The rethugs will try and exploit this to there benefit

[malaise]

3. Rmoney started last night

but remember he just said that US foreign policy is merely a shiny object - a distraction.

I hope the administration is watching the neo-cons and their allies carefully.

[bigdarryl]

6. And he said nothing about Terry Jones being irresponsible

[malaise]

10. Didn't Jones have an effigy of President Obama being lynched

on his 'church' grounds?

Has a single ReTHUG ever condemned this lunatic?

[pinboy3niner]

11. It reportedly got attention in the ME because of others

Protesters condemned a video clip that depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a series of humiliating scenes. A controversial Cairo television host, Sheikh Khaled Abdallah, aired clips from the video on an Islamic-focused television station on Saturday, and the same video clips were posted to YouTube on Monday.


Organizers at the embassy protest told the Associated Press that they’d begun planning the protest last week when a controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, started promoting Bacile’s film. ....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egyptian-protesters-scale-wall-of-us-embassy-in-cairo-pull-down-american-flag/2012/09/11/59312502-fc41-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

[Firebrand Gary]

7. And when they do we are going to fuck them up! #Backbone

[Hissyspit]

5. LBN Thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014226496

[malaise]

8. Damn - so much for Rmoney's view of US foreign policy as

a distraction and a shiny object. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hissyspit]

16. That's almost exactly what I tweeted to Reince Priebus early this morning. nt

[malaise]

17. Rmoney is unfuggingbelievable

or maybe not

[cali]

9. And Engel is correct. From smoke inhalation according to Reuters

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE88B0EI20120912?irpc=932

[boston bean]

12. I just read that and it said the ambassador died in a car after

grenades were launched at it.

Did they change the article after you posted the link?

[cali]

13. they must have.

I also just read that there is a video up on YouTube of his body.

Here's the AJ story stating he died of smoke inhalation. I'm not sure what the facts are.

The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country's interior ministry and security sources have said.

An armed mob attacked and set fire to the building in a protest against an amateur film deemed offensive to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, after similar protests in Egypt's capital.

The ambassador was paying a short visit to Benghazi when the consulate came under attack on Tuesday night, Al Jazeera's Suleiman El-Dressi 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.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/09/20129112108737726.html

[boston bean]

14. I guess, it's all still developing...

a video of his body??? I hope to hell that is not true!

[Historic NY]

15. There are photos of him , yes.

[malaise]

18. You know the real problem is if it's OK to kill Gadafi in the streets

and parade his body for the cameras, then we cannot expect Libyans to show respect for Western dead folks.