Reuters: US ambassador to Libya dead

[Malthus]

Something good has come out of it:

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.

Do they know Colonel Sanders doesn't actually hold rank in the US army? 

[mongers]

Something good has come out of it:

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.

Do they know Colonel Sanders doesn't actually hold rank in the US army? 

Though we can be certain less Lebanese will die of coronary heart disease. 



edit:
I was going to extend the joke along the lines of more risk dying of lead poisoning, but it now turns out one person was killed in this incident. 

[Viking]

Something good has come out of it:

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.

Do they know Colonel Sanders doesn't actually hold rank in the US army? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders

Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of fifteen, completing his service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba.[6]

Mule Handler is probably a rank that they locals understand.

[derspiess]

Something good has come out of it:

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.

Do they know Colonel Sanders doesn't actually hold rank in the US army? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders

Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of fifteen, completing his service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba.[6]

Mule Handler is probably a rank that they locals understand.

Probably outranks colonel in some places.

[Viking]

Something good has come out of it:

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.

Do they know Colonel Sanders doesn't actually hold rank in the US army? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders

Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of fifteen, completing his service commitment as a mule handler in Cuba.[6]

Mule Handler is probably a rank that they locals understand.

Probably outranks colonel in some places.

yeah most western armies have more colonels than mules.. so yeah...

[mongers]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19600542

Fathi Baja Libyan professor who had breakfast with slain US ambassador Chris Stevens on the day of his death

told the BBC: "The security [at the consulate] was not enough. I was there in the morning with Chris around 0915 having breakfast but the security was not just insufficient, there was a big lack of security. He had 4 Libyans, 2 of them in front of the door and 2 inside the small room by the fence. It was very normal security measurements as if you were going to a hotel."

[KRonn]

So WTF was an Ambassador doing wandering around Benghazi on the anniversary of Sept 11? That's a date when radicals seem to try and attack US interests. And were all Embassies heavily defended for that date? It now seems quite obvious that the video was just a prop for a well orchestrated attack on the anniversary of Sept 11. I'm sure this has already been said in this 24 page thread, but I haven't read all of it.

The video had nothing to do with it.  The attack was planned and was going to happen anyway.

Agreed. That's why I called it a prop, something they used as an excuse to stir up Muslim sentiment as a smoke screen for their Sept 11 anniversary attacks.

[Ed Anger]

Felicia Sonmez of the Washington Post

tweets again from a Republican rally in Virginia: asked one woman here what she thought of events in Libya/Egypt/Yemen. "It's sad," she said. Not much more to say. "I'm more of a sports fan"

Tressel would have punted with a three point lead.

[CountDeMoney]

Felicia Sonmez of the Washington Post

tweets again from a Republican rally in Virginia: asked one woman here what she thought of events in Libya/Egypt/Yemen. "It's sad," she said. Not much more to say. "I'm more of a sports fan"

Tressel would have punted with a three point lead.

Spurrier would've punted with a three point lead.  On third down.

[CountDeMoney]

Wow, wish I had mentioned this possibility several pages ago.  Oh wait, I did.

One of the biggest questions still outstanding about the attack on a United States consulate in Libya is whether it was planned or whether it was the result of a protest against a U.S.-made film that criticizes the Prophet Muhammad.

The attack killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

The bottom line is that nothing is firm. But NPR's Leila Fadel reports that Libya's Deputy Interior Minister, Wanis al Sharef, said this was a sophisticated two-prong attack.

The first attack was against the consulate in Benghazi and the second came hours after the original attack, when American and Libyan forces were attempting to rescue two Americans from a safe house.

"Militants staged a second attack on the safe house," Leila reports. "Sharef said it may have been an infiltrator inside the Libyan security forces that tipped the militants off to the location of the safe house. He says this is the attack that killed the two unidentified Americans and wounded 14 others."

It's important to note that U.S. officials from the State Department, the National Security Council and law enforcement have told NPR that they have not been able to confirm that this was a planned attack.

The Associated Press also spoke to Sharef who told them that the "attacks may have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary" and that the "militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as a cover for their actions."

Leila reports that part of what Sharef said is contradicted by witnesses.

"A lot of the witnesses that we've spoken to — neighbors, the son of the landlord, a Libyan guard who was wounded during the first part of the attack on Tuesday night — all say there was no protest at all," Leila reports. "They say that it began as an organized attack on the consulate."

Update at 6:42 p.m. ET. Avenge An Al-Qaida Death:

The experts at the Quilliam Foundation, a "counter-extremism think tank" based in London, have put out their own reading of the situation.

"We have reason to believe that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al-Qaida's second in command killed a few months ago," the group writes in a press release.

They report that according to their sources, the attack was perpetrated by about 20 militants and it happened 24 hours after an al-Qaida spokesman called on his followers to avenge the death of al-Libi.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers echoed that thinking in an interview with Fox News.

"It was a coordinated, military-style, commando-type raid," Rogers told Fox. "This was a well- planned, well-targeted event. No doubt about it."

[Ed Anger]

The dude on CNN reporting from Cairo got Tear gas in his face. LET'S WATCH.

[CountDeMoney]

The dude on CNN reporting from Cairo got Tear gas in his face. LET'S WATCH.

No, that's Anderson Cooper.  And it was just spooge.

[Ed Anger]

HA!

[Ed Anger]

I'd do Arwa Damon.

[Ed Anger]

Ben's got red face. AWESOME.