How often do other Consulates or Embassies receive threats? Is this normal or unusual? If it is out of the ordinary to receive this many threats, then someone has some explaining to do.
Do we really need a statistical comparison to assess threat levels in Muslim countries that have just undergone regime changes, like Libya and Egypt, to understand the relative danger? I’m sure our embassy in Paris gets threats too. Between that one and the one in Libya that we just bombed the bejeesus out of which one seems more likely to be vulnerable?
It makes Stevens action that night even more curious.
Why was he taking a journal with him?
Was his journal -found 4 days later by CNN- a plant to get this ball rolling about security?