A day by the protests at the American Embassy in Cairo

Egypt Independent (English version of Al-Masry Al-Youm ^ | 09/15/2012 | Aly el-Malky

[fso301]

At this very moment, Americans are piling into movie theaters, cheering through their popcorn at the notion of the Islamic prophet as a goat-romancing child molester, and sending “The Innocence of Muslims” to the top of the box office charts. It’s an evil that must be stopped at all costs, or at least, “before the film is released in European cinemas,” urges Ahmed Ibrahim as, behind him, three of his colleagues collect rocks off the rubble-strewn street and dump them onto an improvised sling — a tattered and stained Egyptian flag.

[Brad from Tennessee]

On balance it's pretty objective and professional. It tries to explain the power of incendiary propaganda and how susceptible the Middle Eastern masses are to it.

[rodguy911]

Try this its a little easier to read:

Here is a synopsis of what went down in Egypt and how the entire thing was pre-planned to coincide with 911 and reprisals for us holding the blind sheik in jail etc etc.Any talk about the video being the cause is just political cover for our Dear Leader. It's not accurate.

Petraeus tells a congressional group, including McCain that attacks killing the amabassadeur were planned.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/al-qaeda-took-advantage-of-libyan-protest-cia-chief-says/ ...............

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/reports-embassy-attacks-likely-pre-planned-coordinated/

According to the blaze:

Its salafists who inspired the attacks days before they happened.they were reprisals for us holding the blind sheik Rackhman,any ol excuse will do.

The protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was announced Aug. 30 by Jamaa Islamiya, a State Department-designated terrorist group, to protest the ongoing imprisonment of its spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

When the video started circulating, Nader Bakkar, the spokesman for the Egyptian Salafist Noor party, which holds about 25% of the seats in parliament, called on people to go to the embassy. He also called on non-Islamist soccer hooligans, known as Ultras, to join the protest. On Monday, the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, Mohamed, tweeted that people should go to the embassy and “defend the prophet,” Trager said.

WTOP adds of Libya:

The incident does not appear to be a random mob scene, but rather an opportunity that militants seized, sources say. The attackers used a rocket-propelled grenade, a weapon not traditionally carried by protesters, but commonly used by terrorists. The attack is believed to have come in two waves. The first wave got inside of the compound, and a second wave penetrated a secure room inside the building. This fact raises questions about how the attackers knew the location of the rooms inside, sources say.

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The following from FNC the video used as an excuse to do the attacks:no doubt it was a planned attack with info about the "safe house" which only comes from inside info.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/consulate-attack-planned-as-2-part-militant-assault-libyan-official-says/

A Libyan official said Thursday that the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a planned, two-part operation that included a raid on a supposedly secret safe house -- an account that comports with what a top U.S. lawmaker told Fox News a day earlier.

On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Fox News that the strike was a "coordinated, military-style" operation.

Wanis al-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister , then said on Thursday the attacks were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary and that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as cover for their action.

The same official also told Reuters that arrests have been made in connection with the investigation. It's unclear whether those arrested are chief suspects. Sharef said four people were in custody and being interrogated "because they are suspected of helping instigate" the attack, but stressed the Libyan government is still "gathering evidence."

Separately, Sharef offered new details about the operation behind the attack Tuesday. He said U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and another official were killed in the consulate, but that the attackers timed a second wave on the safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff.

He said that second wave killed two more Americans and wounded nearly 30 Libyans and Americans.

The comments continued to contradict initial reports that the attack was a product of angry and violent protests over an anti-Islam film.

Rogers told Fox News he has"no doubt" it was a planned attack and had nothing to do with the film.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/consulate-attack-planned-as-2-part-militant-assault-libyan-official-says/#ixzz26ZbUMY7u

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Even USA today admits that the attacks were pre-planned long before they even knew about the video. I just watched the video. Its a piece of crap. Anyone who would pay any attention to that has an IQ of 4.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012/09/12/deadly-embassy-attacks-were-days-in-the-making/57752828/1

[LibLieSlayer]

Excellent time line. I appreciate all of the effort. We must eradicate islam and obama has got to go.

LLS

[fso301]

I don't think that was the point of the article. It was a window into the thinking of the protestors, and regular Egyptians who want nothing to do with them.

I tend to agree but I think my point still stands, people read newspapers in one of three ways, by scanning titles, reading the first two paragraphs, or reading the entire article.

[Girlene]

I tend to agree but I think my point still stands, people read newspapers in one of three ways, by scanning titles, reading the first two paragraphs, or reading the entire article.

You are absolutely right. My point about "that not being the point of the article" referred to your contention that the author never dispelled the notion that the video was ......etc.

The author was not trying to justify or explain about the video; he was showing a window into what's driving these protests, how an ignorant minority is creating the havoc, and the helplessness pther Egyptians feel that do not want this rioting/havoc/etc. I found it informative, is all.

[Waywardson]

It is going to be time for an “American Indian” solution to this problem...

[piasa]

This guy must be the egyptian equivalent of Chris Matthews. Probably gets a tingle up his leg when he thinks of the Blind Sheikh.

[Alas Babylon!]

Still, I bet the goat romancing part got Ahmed all tingly. That’s why he’s at the protest trying to subdue his inner goat romancer. He been ba-a-aad!

[rodguy911]

Thanks very much,lots at stake.Lets hope the forces of evil do not triumph.

[LibLieSlayer]

I am praying over it hard.

LLS

[UCANSEE2]

We must eradicate islam and obama has got to go.

Yeah.... too bad though that you are I are not the President.

[UCANSEE2]

We must eradicate islam and obama has got to go.

Yeah.... too bad though that you AND I are not the President.

[LibLieSlayer]

I can predict with absolute certainty that the media would hate my guts... and their lives would be hell while I was in office.

LLS