Are we no longer safe even in an U.S. Embassy… 4 people killed inside the embassy; this is the second time this has happen in an U. S. Embassy. How can this happen in a county the U. S. help liberate? Security is now being tightened other embassy’s over the county in. In a statement, President Obama condemned the “outrageous attack” on the facility in Benghazi, the eastern Libyan city which was a rebel stronghold during the uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi.

The BBC’s Rana Jawad: “It’s believed the US ambassador died of suffocation”. The US ambassador to Libya is among four Americans killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, President Barack Obama has confirmed. Unidentified armed men stormed the grounds overnight amid uproar among Muslims over a US-produced film said to insult the Prophet Muhammad. They shot at buildings and threw handmade bombs into the compound. Protesters against the film also attacked the US embassy in Cairo on Tuesday night. In Kabul, the Afghan government gave orders for the video-sharing website Youtube to be closed to the public until the offending film was removed.