Posted on 09/12/2012 3:02:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
US President Barack Obama has vowed to bring to justice those who killed the US ambassador to Libya during protests against a film that mocks Islam.
But he told reporters that the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi would not break the bonds between the US and the new Libyan government.
His election rival Mitt Romney criticised his handling of the crisis.
Ambassador J Christopher Stevens reportedly died of smoke inhalation after a crowd stormed the consulate.
Three other Americans were also killed and the consulate set ablaze, in what the White House described as a "complex" attack. Unconfirmed reports - including Arab officials - suggest the violence could have been planned in advance.
The assault on Tuesday night included the use of rocket-propelled grenades, reports say. Charred vehicles could be seen parked near the damaged buildings on Wednesday.
US officials confirmed that all remaining staff in Benghazi had been evacuated and the US diplomatic mission in Tripoli had been reduced to emergency staffing.
A US marine anti-terrorism team is being sent to Libya to bolster security after the attack, a US defence source told reporters in Washington.
Protesters against the film attacked the US embassy in Cairo on Tuesday night. 'Especially tragic'
Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House, President Obama told reporters: "Make no mistake. Justice will be done."
He said he condemned "in the strongest possible terms the outrageous and shocking" attack.
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If you saw the pictures os the Ambassador he looked beaten severely
But! But! But! I thought it was in retaliation for some American making a terrible movie about their beloved Muhammad.
Yep, the story does not add up.
I wouldn't want to be those guys. They are going to get a very, very stern lecture from Obama and it might even be in writing.
“He said he condemned “in the strongest possible terms the outrageous and shocking” attack.”
I see it’s time to lower our flags again.
FU Hussein!
Justice? It is an Act of War, you little boy.
We need to put some adults back in the White House. Men (and women) who will not fear doing the right thing.
The US Embassy may have deleted twitters, but the terrorists are posting on the US Embassy in Cairo Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/USEmbassyCairo
Dare I say “Wag the Dog?”
The problem with your account is this - where were the “friendly” Libyan security guards? The account sounds to me like one created for plausible deniability with a pre-arranged scapegoat who either will have conveniently died in the attack or will be killed while resisting arrest. If you have to ask why the Libyan government would do this, you’d have to ask why Muslims simultaneously say 9/11 was a Bush plot and a great victory for Islam. For a fair number of Muslims, logical contradictions are just part of the fun.
Reports are that the Marines stayed behind in the consulate as a last stand to give time for the others to escape. Stevens suffered smoke inhalation in the safe house after escaping the consulate.
Obama will now mandate the strip searching of all white children and white grandmothers at airport security lines and he hopes the murders get the message he’s sending.
No media mention that this is the first US ambassasor killed since... the Carter administration.
That’s the media’s main goal: to hide that one fact, to suppress any public comparison.
I wonder if the killers of Adolph “Spike” Dubs (August 4, 1920 - February 14, 1979) the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 13, 1978, until his death in 1979 were ever ‘brought to justice’?
Be patient. An investigation takes time.
First a clear link needs to be made with the perps and one of the groups on the DHS potential terrorist list. You know, people with traditional American values, US war veterans, members of Tea Party groups, gun rights advocates, people that post on Free Republic, and so on. /S
What about Fort Hood?
Reagan had the savages in check.
Then This Idiot attacked Col Q, and we got What for it?
Most of the security guards stayed with the consulate personnel to the safe house and then exfiltrated after that location was burned down.
There are a number of wounded Libyan security guards that suffered gunshot wounds. I’m guessing that only one was a turncoat.
That was then
Now the whole country should be given several plutonium enemas.
Green glass, all of Egypt...Libya too.
Obama = scum
That nails it!
LLS
It is what muslims have done since the 600’s.
LLS
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