Reuters: US ambassador to Libya dead

[Sheilbh]

Oh and the latest reports are that this was a temporary consulate. So no marines, no bomb proofing and not even any bullet proof glass or anything that's standard at a US Embassy. And the current view is that this looks like a planned attack that used the protest as cover.

[mongers]

Obama talking live in Las Vagas; didn't quite catch what he was saying about the event, other than about public service abroad.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh and the latest reports are that this was a temporary consulate. So no marines, no bomb proofing and not even any bullet proof glass or anything that's standard at a US Embassy. And the current view is that this looks like a planned attack that used the protest as cover.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said there is strong evidence that the attack was planned.

"This was a well-armed, well-coordinated event," Rogers said in an interview on MSNBC. "It had both indirect and direct fire, and it had military maneuvers that were all part of this very organized attack." Rogers referred to weapons that aimed directly at a target and those, such as rockets and mortars, that are fired without a direct line of sight.

According to Firas Abdelhakim, a Libyan television journalist who said he witnessed part of the attack, a group of several dozen armed men mounted the assault.

Abdelhakim said he was about three miles from consulate when he saw 20 to 30 cars driving toward the consulate shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.

When he reached the consulate, he said, he saw about 50 armed men gathering who were not carrying banners or chanting slogans. When asked who they were, they described themselves variously as "Muslims defending the Prophet" and "a group of Muslim youth" who were "defending Islam," Abdelhakim said.

Interesting MSNBC report on how this attack may have been retaliation for Al Libi's drone death back in June.  Apparently there may be more to the story.

[Jaron]

We should just destroy Libya.  This is becoming very tedious.

[mongers]

Just watching the BBC World coverage and the anchor is having kittens because the female reporter in Washington is saying US marines are going to Libya, he says "that would be something, US boots on the ground in Libya" 

Hilarious, not understanding that it's common practice to have Marines guard US embassies. 

Seriously a lot of you guys on Languish could do much better, more balanced and informed job than these media types.

[FunkMonk]

And the current view is that this looks like a planned attack that used the protest as cover.

Ya know, the more that comes out about this the sillier Mitt Romney is made to look. Trying to score political points in the midst of a life-and-death event involving American citizens on the anniversary of 9/11 is something I thought I'd never see from a serious presidential candidate.  I am actually embarrassed that I at one point contemplated voting for him.

[CountDeMoney]

We should just destroy Libya.  This is becoming very tedious.

Nonsense;  always a few fleas in the fur.  Libyans are overwhelmingly pro-American.  There's a lot more to this than is out there in open source at the moment.

Now Egypt, on the other hand...

[CountDeMoney]

Ya know, the more that comes out about this the sillier Mitt Romney is made to look. Trying to score political points in the midst of a life-and-death event involving American citizens on the anniversary of 9/11 is something I thought I'd never see from a serious presidential candidate.  I am actually embarrassed that I at one point contemplated voting for him.

Unfortunately, when it comes to foreign policy, he and his people running his campaign continually prove he isn't a serious presidential candidate.

[Ed Anger]

We should just destroy Libya.  This is becoming very tedious.

Nonsense;  always a few fleas in the fur.  Libyans are overwhelmingly pro-American.  There's a lot more to this than is out there in open source at the moment.

Now Egypt, on the other hand...

Morsi needs a dead pig on his desk.

[FunkMonk]

Ya know, the more that comes out about this the sillier Mitt Romney is made to look. Trying to score political points in the midst of a life-and-death event involving American citizens on the anniversary of 9/11 is something I thought I'd never see from a serious presidential candidate.  I am actually embarrassed that I at one point contemplated voting for him.

Unfortunately, when it comes to foreign policy, he and his people running his campaign continually prove he isn't a serious presidential candidate.

I'm one of the three people in the country where foreign policy is my sole salient issue. Mitt Romney is dead to me now.

[Razgovory]

Ya know, the more that comes out about this the sillier Mitt Romney is made to look. Trying to score political points in the midst of a life-and-death event involving American citizens on the anniversary of 9/11 is something I thought I'd never see from a serious presidential candidate.  I am actually embarrassed that I at one point contemplated voting for him.

Unfortunately, when it comes to foreign policy, he and his people running his campaign continually prove he isn't a serious presidential candidate.

I'm one of the three people in the country where foreign policy is my sole salient issue. Mitt Romney is dead to me now.

Who are the other two guys?

[Ed Anger]

Me

[FunkMonk]

And the UPS guy I knew when I lived in Illinois

[Ed Anger]

I'll be Chevy Chase, you'll be Martin Short and ups guy Steve Martin.

[Neil]

This is just a distraction.  Nuking the Chinese coastline is still what's most important.  Sure, Islam is incompatible with civilization, but that's why they're not a real threat.