{"id":31955,"date":"2012-09-11T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31955"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:02:00","slug":"us-consulate-in-begazi-torched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31955","title":{"rendered":"US consulate in Benghazi torched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the same reason as the attack on the US embassy in Cairo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/2\/9\/52597\/World\/International\/Mob-sets-fire-to-US-consulate-in-Benghazi-witness.aspx\">Libyans are now getting exercised<\/a> over a film that no one has seen. Funny how it happens on September 11th, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Demonstrators attacked the US consulate in Benghazi. They fired shots in the air before entering the building,&#8221; Libya&#8217;s deputy interior minister, Wanis al-Sharif Sharif, who is in charge of the country&#8217;s eastern region, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dozens of demonstrators attacked the consulate and set fire to it,&#8221; said a Benghazi resident, who only gave his name as Omar, adding that he had seen the flames and heard shots in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted by AFP, a US State Department official in Washington said US officials were still seeking information about the situation in Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the attack in Libya and the earlier demonstration against the US mission in Egypt could be connected, the official said it was unclear yet if the protests had been coordinated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we should shut down all of our emabassies in the southern Med and pull our aid and they can Arab Spring their asses off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong>So, stolen from our buddies at <a href=\"http:\/\/weaselzippers.us\/2012\/09\/11\/video-the-movie-depicting-prophet-mohammed-that-sparked-egyptian-protesters-to-attack-u-s-embassy\/\">WeaselZippers<\/a> is the trailer;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntgzoE7rU9A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch it now, because it probably won&#8217;t last long. Real big budget production, like the tire tracks across the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the same reason as the attack on the US embassy in Cairo &#8211; Libyans are &hellip; <a title=\"US consulate in Benghazi torched\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31955\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US consulate in Benghazi torched<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}