(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. . . . . .
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. 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.
Editor's notes: we wait to see this Administration's reaction to this news.
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