[Brad from Tennessee]

This story is from a Libyan newspaper. It adds some details:

http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/03/russian-embassy-attack-contradictory-accounts/#axzz2ghLuJBt6

[Pan_Yan]

From your link:

The embassy attack may have been a response to the Suq Al-Jumah murder of a prominent Revolutionary fighter by his Russia wife or Girlfriend, using his own Kalashnikov.

The first thing I thought of when I started reading this story was "Girlfriend? Or handler?"