Protesters storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo

[Donger]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

I suppose it's a good thing that "it doesn't have to be a good thing for us"....

Cairo (CNN) -- Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and hauled down the American flag, replacing it with a black standard with Islamic emblems, apparently in protest of the production of a film thought to insult the Prophet Mohammed.

The incident prompted a volley of warning shots to be fired as a large crowd gathered outside, said CNN producer Mohammed Fahmy, who was on the scene.

The replacement flag read, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger."

Others expressed more general grievances about U.S. policy, chanting anti-American slogans and holding up bits of a shredded American flag to television camera crews in front of the embassy.

An embassy operator told CNN that the facility had been cleared of diplomatic personnel earlier Tuesday, ahead of the apparent threat, while Egyptian riot police were called to help secure the area.

The U.S. Embassy said in a statement Tuesday that it "condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims -- as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."

"Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy," the statement said. "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."

The incident occurred on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, as crowds gathered in somber remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

It is not clear which film upset the protesters in Cairo.

In 2008, an anti-Muslim and anti-immigration parliamentarian from The Netherlands sparked international outcry when he produced a film that portrayed Islam as a violent religion.

Geert Wilders' film "Fitna," which he released online, featured images of terrorist acts superimposed over verses from the Quran.

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Obama refrained from intervening as a dictator which we've been supporting through five Presidencies was overthrown. Also, he actively helped overthrow the other brutal dictator while their population cheered.

Bush started two wars against Muslim countries.

Big diff.

Also, CNN is now quoting a US source in saying that this was a targeted terrorist attack that used the protesters as cover.

CBS/AP...sees it far different than CNN.

CBS/AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens was among four Americans killed in an attack by Muslim protesters on the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi the previous evening, the U.S. government confirmed Wednesday. [...]

Military officials told CBS News an anti-terrorism team of U.S. Marines was being deployed to Libya to help secure U.S. interests in the country following the attack. The State Department said, however, that no Americans were remaining at the facility in Benghazi. State officials would not confirm how many Americans were evacuated, or to where.

Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Obama refrained from intervening as a dictator which we've been supporting through five Presidencies was overthrown. Also, he actively helped overthrow the other brutal dictator while their population cheered.

Bush started two wars against Muslim countries.

Big diff.

Also, CNN is now quoting a US source in saying that this was a targeted terrorist attack that used the protesters as cover.

Is there a point there?

[Aries Walker]

Yep. You were drawing a divergence in how similar situations were handled during a Bush presidency and an Obama presidency. I pointed out how the situations weren't all that similar. That's the point.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Jesus.

What's the standard operating procedure for embassies? If you feel threatened, you can retaliate with your own firepower, right?

Muhammed, What's teh standard operating procedure for embassies?

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Calcountry

Muhammed, What's teh standard operating procedure for embassies?

KILL ALL THE INFIDELS IN AS COWARDLY A MANNER AS POSSIBLE!
THEN GO DOUBLE-TEAM A GOAT WHILE SMELLING THE LEFT HAND OF YOUR BROTHER/PARTNER!!!!!!!!!

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Yep. You were drawing a divergence in how similar situations were handled during a Bush presidency and an Obama presidency. I pointed out how the situations weren't all that similar. That's the point.

I wasn't making a case the situations were similar, just their outcomes.

But since you brought it up you probably agree that both Bush and Obama have engaged in nation building.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

We should have just let their government smash them.

Seems reasonable.

[LiveSteam]

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

****ing savages. I'd nuke their asses and not miss one wink of sleep.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

****ing savages. I'd nuke their asses and not miss one wink of sleep.

I wouldn't either. A nice savage is a dead savage IMO

[ForeverChiefs58]

Glad the US doesn't need any aid to get our economy going



Egypt likely needs over $10 billion in aid: senior EU official


Egypt is likely to need more than $10 billion in external financing to help it get its economy on track, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.

The official said the European Union and other institutions and countries were considering financial support for Egypt in addition to a $4.8 billion loan which Cairo has requested from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

"...Egypt will need more than this almost $5 billion, probably Egypt will need more than double this amount, more than $10 billion," the official told a briefing ahead of a visit to Brussels by Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday.

The EU will "reinforce" the IMF package with aid of its own for Egypt, but was still considering how much support it would provide, the official said.

Egypt, which needs help to stave off a balance of payments crisis and rebuild confidence among investors who fled during 18 months of political turmoil, hopes to reach a deal with the IMF by the end off the year, officials in Cairo have said.

Mursi, on his first visit to Europe since he became Egypt's first freely elected president in June, will meet European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Herman van Rompuy, president of the council of EU governments.

The meetings will take place two days after Tuesday's attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo, where protesters scaled the walls, tore down the U.S. flag and burned it. Demonstrators said they were protesting about what they said was a U.S. film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.

Later on Tuesday, protesters in Libya attacked the U.S consulate in Benghazi, killing the U.S. ambassador and three other embassy staff.

The talks in Brussels are expected to cover economic support, job creation, agriculture, energy and European investment in Egypt, the official said. The Egyptians are focusing on developing the country's gas industry and renewable energy.

Trade will be on the agenda but the European Union is not yet ready to open talks with Egypt on a free trade agreement, the official said.

Egypt's future is important for the 27-member bloc, which sees the development of Arab Spring countries as an economic opportunity, but also fears the possibility of anti-European governments on the other side of the Mediterranean.

Last year, the European Union introduced a "more for more" policy under which it links economic aid to progress in civil rights and democracy.

http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-likely-n...--finance.html

[HonestChieffan]

On to Tunisia...


(AFP) — Police on Wednesday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Salafist demonstrators outside the US embassy in Tunis gathered to condemn a film deemed offensive to Islam, an AFP photographer said.

He said the intervention came as the demonstrators, estimated to number 300, started to try to break through the gates of the embassy compound after having demonstrated peacefully for several hours outside.

[ForeverChiefs58]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

On to Tunisia...


(AFP) — Police on Wednesday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Salafist demonstrators outside the US embassy in Tunis gathered to condemn a film deemed offensive to Islam, an AFP photographer said.

He said the intervention came as the demonstrators, estimated to number 300, started to try to break through the gates of the embassy compound after having demonstrated peacefully for several hours outside.

How dare anyone make a film depicting muslims as violent.

[Direckshun]

John Lundin @johnlundin

A Jewish idiot makes a film, a Christian idiot promotes it, Muslim idiots kill over it, and Republican idiots condemn Obama.

[LVNHACK]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

The Middle East, as well as several places on earth, needs to catch up to modernity.

These people still wipe their ass with their left hand....Still believe a man is for pleasure and woman for making babies.....How long is gonna take for them to catch up ?

The birth place of civilization is still wearing diapers....