U. S. Ambassador and three staffers killed during attack in east Libya city

ALJAZEERA:  The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country’s interior ministry and security sources have said.

An armed mob attacked and set fire to the building in a protest against an amateur film deemed offensive to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, after similar protests in Egypt’s capital…

A group calling themselves the ‘Islamic law supporters’ carried out the attack in response to the relaese of the film, Al Jazeera’s El-Dressi reported…  (more)

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