President Obama, Terrorism, and Libya

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Muslim rioters murder U.S. ambassador, three others

Much like the Syrian debacle, much like the Iranian debacle, much like the Iraqi debacle -- [this is] the same sort of failed policy," he tells OneNewsNow. "They do not understand that part of the world, they don't listen to people who do -- and as a result we shed a lot of innocent blood."

Bob Maginnis, Family Research Council

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday.

They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob guns and rocket propelled grenades.
The three Libyan officials who confirmed the deaths were deputy interior minister for eastern Libya Wanis al-Sharaf; Benghazi security chief Abdel-Basit Haroun; and Benghazi city council and security official Ahmed Bousinia.

The State Department said Tuesday that one American was killed in the attack. It has not confirmed the other deaths.

The attack on the Benghazi consulate took place as hundreds of protesters in neighboring Egypt scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down and replaced the American flag with a black Islamic banner.

The attacks in Benghazi and Cairo were the first such assaults on U.S. diplomatic facilities in either country, at a time when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to overcome the turmoil following the ouster of their longtime authoritarian leaders, Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak, in uprisings last year.

The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an Israeli filmmaker living in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube.
 
Stevens, 52, was a career diplomat who spoke Arabic and French and had already served two tours in Libya, including running the office in Benghazi during the revolt against Gadhafi. He was confirmed as ambassador to Libya by the Senate earlier this year.

One foreign policy debacle after another

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow
National defense analyst and Pentagon advisor Bob Maginnis says the initial reaction of the U.S. consulate in Cairo to condemn an anti-Islam movie is another sign of the appeasement attitude of the president when it comes to Islam. The perpetrators of Tuesday's attacks in Egypt and Libya cited that reaction as a reason for their actions.

Maginnis, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who is now senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council, says this is another in a long line of Obama foreign policy debacles.

"Much like the Syrian debacle, much like the Iranian debacle, much like the Iraqi debacle -- [this is] the same sort of failed policy," he tells OneNewsNow. "They do not understand that part of the world, they don't listen to people who do -- and as a result we shed a lot of innocent blood."

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