Assault on U.S. consulate in Benghazi leaves 4 dead, including The U.S. Ambassador

Assault on U.S. consulate in Benghazi leaves 4 dead, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens​

September 12, 2012 Updated at 9:27 a.m. Eastern

(CBS/AP) U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens was among four Americans killed in an attack by Muslim protesters on the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi the previous evening, the U.S. government confirmed Wednesday.

"I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens," President Obama said in a written statement released Wednesday morning. The U.S. government had confirmed one American death on Tuesday.

President Obama said he had ordered heightened security at all U.S. diplomatic offices around the world in the wake of the attack in Benghazi and a similar but less violent incident in Cairo on Tuesday. Both incidents were sparked by hardline Muslims protesting a film made in the U.S. which insults the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

Military officials told CBS News an anti-terrorism team of U.S. Marines was being deployed to Libya to help secure U.S. interests in the country following the attack. The State Department said, however, that no Americans were remaining at the facility in Benghazi. State officials would not confirm how many Americans were evacuated, or to where.

Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building - deemed safer - after the initial wave of protests at the consulate compound. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.

Stevens, 52, was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979. A Libyan doctor who says he treated Stevens told the Associated Press Wednesday that the diplomat died of severe asphyxiation and that he tried for 90 minutes to revive him.

Ziad Abu Zeid said Stevens was brought to the Benghazi Medical Center by Libyans Tuesday night with no other Americans, and that initially no one realized he was the ambassador. Abu Zeid said Stevens had "severe asphyxia," apparently from smoke inhalation, causing stomach bleeding, but had no other injuries.

Al-Sharef said two U.S. Marines sent to Benghazi when the clash erupted were shot and killed by the well-armed protesters. It was not immediately clear whether the Marines were part of Stevens' security detail. The American whose death was confirmed on Tuesday also died of a gunshot wound. He was identified by the State Department on Wednesday as Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith.

Deputy Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur said on his Twitter account that, "Amb. Stevens was a friend of Libya and we are shocked at the attacks on the U.S. consulate." The Libyan Prime Minister also expressed grief and condemned the attack.

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Clinton expressed concern that the protests might spread to other countries. She said the U.S. is working with "partner countries around the world to protect our personnel, our missions, and American citizens worldwide."

"Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet," Clinton said in the statement released by the State Department. "The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind."


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Read more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/assault...ncluding-us-ambassador-j-christopher-stevens/

From the beginning this President Barack Hussein Obama II and his appointee Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to cover-up the needless and tragic deaths of four Americans including an American Ambassador. Until recently those directly involved in the rescue efforts were kept from testifying or describing what occurred that night. We now know that the story line of the President and his Secretary of State were lies and a cover-up.

 

"Shortly before beginning its August recess, the House Intelligence Committee, also led by Republicans, approved its report on the militant attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
"Our investigation found the intelligence community warned about an increased threat environment, but did not have specific tactical warning of an attack before it happened," Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, the senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, said in a statement after its vote.
Ruppersberger said the finding is "consistent with testimony that the attacks appeared to be opportunistic.""
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/06/politics/benghazi-select-committee/

 

All the evidence today shows that the attack was organized, imminent and pre-planned.

 

You have been claiming that practically since the day after the attack.

This is neither a 'current event' or even news- this is just a rehash of the fringe right wing attacks.

Anything to attack Obama

 

You forget that today is the memorial of 9/11. As we pause to remember 9/11/01, shouldn't we also be reminded of 9/11/12? The fact that the words spoken on 9/12/12 in an attempt to cover-up the truth of that fateful evening and night irk you. Why is that? You don't want the truth do you? Nor do you seek the truth when it's detrimental to your ideology.

 

20 years from now Wehrwolven will be posting this under "Current Events"....still obsessing over Obama.

Oh, with the same lack of evidence from Darrell Issa OR Trey Gowdy proving anything.

 

No- I don't forget that you are using the occasion of the attack on the United States to once again attack the President Obama.

Like I said- not a current event.

Just another "I hate Obama" thread.

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Well unless Hilary is elected President.......I suspect that the moment that happens Wehrwolven will suddenly be starting 3 threads a day about how horrible Hilary is.

 

The Benghazi Memo Points to a Crime​

by Frank Salvato,
May 1, 2014 (h/t @El_Grillo1)
The New Media Journal

The newly dislodged memo(http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...-point-white-house-misleading-talking-points/) from the Obama White House is effectively the smoking gun proving that President Obama’s handlers sought to deceive the American electorate in the run-up to the 2012 General Election on the issue of Benghazi. Even the refined spin and disinformation skills of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney weren’t enough to “play in Peoria”; the White House Press Corps audibly giggling at his insistence that the issue is a Republican conspiracy theory focused on “talking points.” That the Obama Administration has no problem lying to the American people in the pursuit of its agenda should be troubling enough, but now we have the issue of their complicity in covering-up the deaths – the murders – of four Americans. Anyone else executing the same rhetorical maneuvers would be charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and accessory to murder.

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http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/obstruction-of-justice/

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People may be overly protective of their ideologically Marxist President, however truth and time have exposed both as liars, obstructionists, traitors and criminals against this nation.

 

Naturally. But you could have 25 years of Republican Presidents...and if Ted Cruz's son was President in 2040 and beat a dog to death in the Rose Garden?

WW would find a way to blame it on Obama.

 

Speaking of liars, traitors and criminals.....where is any evidence that President Obama EVER ordered the military to stand down in Benghazi?- as your post claims?

 

Well lets look at the record:
Didn't attack in Syria- blame Obama for not attacking in Syria
Supported attack in Libya- blame Obama for supporting attack in Libya
Didn't attack ISIS in Iraq- blame Obama for not attacking ISIS in Iraq
Attacked ISIS in Iraq- blame Obama for attacking ISIS in Iraq- the wrong way.....

If Godzilla were to attack Dallas, they would be blaming Obama for dumping the nuclear waste that spawned Godzilla.....

 

There was a major failure of leadership at the State Dept that lead to the death's of 4 Americans including the first American Ambassador to die in the line of duty since 1979. A whitewash at this point serves no one especially the families of the dead and the American people as a whole. What disconnect at the State Dept of it's leadership did it take to get from..............this........

..................to 09/11/2012?

Hillary Clinton's State Dept actually REDUCED security in Benghazi, despite pleas from Ambassador Steven's and others to INCREASE it. Liberals and Democrats want to frame the Benghazi attack as beginning when the attack did, so there was nothing that could be done. Nothing could be further from the truth. A Benghazi terror plot had been thwarted as far back as 12/2011, a FULL 9 months before the attack. There was plenty of time to execute an exit/defense strategy.

 

Please quote the statement in my post where I supposedly make that statement. The truth as has been uncovered is that there was and is a cover-up. Are you denying that?

 

*What good has `o` Done for you and / or Americans in the last 6 plus years?

 

It was politically necessary and expedient to cover-up the incompetence of Obama and Hillary two months before the election. If it took obstruction of justice, perjury to cover this debacle up so be it. It's been proven that the video had nothing to do with the attack that was touted as the reason by Obama, Hillary, Susan Rice and the complicit Lame Stream Media, Obama's 5th Column.

 

You have been claiming that practically since the day after the attack.

This is neither a 'current event' or even news- this is just a rehash of the fringe right wing attacks.

Anything to attack Obama

 

Please see attached- the image you posted didn't fall onto your post by accident.

So once again

Speaking of liars, traitors and criminals.....where is any evidence that President Obama EVER ordered the military to stand down in Benghazi?- as your post claims?

 

Someone did. Are you claiming now that someone without the authority gave the order to do so. If so, can you identify that person? Was it Leon Panetta, a general, Hillary, Valarie Jarret, a low level State Dept. person? Maybe it was an IRS agent in Cincinnati? Tell us... Three surviving eye witnesses in Benghazi QRF members previously forced into silence claim it so on TV. Where did the orders to wait and stand down come from? If not Obama who?

 

They've given up on the "stand down order" angle and now they seem to be reviving the "spontaneous attack" angle. Of course, they have no evidence, but they seem to see this as a game.

 

organized and planned by terrorists in libya

they are the ones that committed a crime, not americans

 

Good attempt to dodge the question but I am glad to repeat it again:

Speaking of liars, traitors and criminals.....where is any evidence that President Obama EVER ordered the military to stand down in Benghazi?- as your post claims?

 

"Stand down order" angle? Where have you been, pardy? There are five segments that comprise this interview at YouTube... here is the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22269kcUUU

The protective force was INDEED told to stand down during the critical period that made all the difference, and, resulted in four Americans being killed by Islamo-Nazis. And what was the reaction of the Obama regime players? They blamed it on an idiotic anti-Islam YouTube video, and they ran Susan Rice out in front of the "news" media to stonewall and lie about every aspect of this disgrace. Oh, and during this nauseating spectacle, Hillary Clinton suddenly had big "health problems" that she used as an excuse to avoid having to testify to Congress. How can you hyperlibs expect the rest of us to believe any of this horse****?!

 

Thanks for the reminder, Wehrwolfen.

As usual, the nutlickers try to deflect and divert.

 

Have I said differently. I mention the fact that the cover-up after the attack makes this Administration criminal. Obama had a choice, either lose the election or try to cover up his incompetence and hope the media would help him cover-up problem. We have seen Obama's political strategies and cover-ups in Fast N' Furious, Benghazi, IRS, DOJ wiretaps and the NSA debacle.