What About Benghazi . . and . . and . .   

As of September 14, 2012 . . .

The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach.

Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".

Libya's President

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.                                                                               

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

An eight-strong American rescue team was sent from Tripoli and taken by troops under Captain Fathi al- Obeidi, of the February 17 Brigade, to the secret safe house to extract around 40 US staff. The building then came under fire from heavy weapons. "I don't know how they found the place to carry out the attack. It was planned, the accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for any ordinary revolutionaries," said Captain Obeidi. "It began to rain down on us, about six mortars fell directly on the path to the villa."

Jay Carney

Global anger: The protests spread

Yemen

The furor across the Middle East over the controversial film about the Prophet Mohamed is now threatening to get out of control. In Sana'a, the Yemeni capital, yesterday around 5,000 demonstrators attacked the US embassy, leaving at least 15 people injured. Young protesters, shouted: "We sacrifice ourselves for you, Messenger of God," smashed windows of the security offices and burned at least five cars, witnesses said.

Egypt

Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi yesterday condemned the attack in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador. In a speech in Brussels, Mr Morsi said he had spoken to President Obama and condemned "in the clearest terms" the Tuesday attacks. Despite this, and possibly playing to a domestic audience, President Obama said yesterday that "I don't think we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy".

Demonstrators in Cairo attacked the mission on Tuesday evening and protests have continued since.

Iraq

Militants said the anti-Islamic film "will put all the American interests in Iraq in danger" and called on Muslims everywhere to "face our joint enemy", as protesters in Baghdad burned American flags yesterday. The warning from the Iranian-backed group Asaib Ahl al-Haq came as demonstrators demanded the closure of the US embassy in the capital.

Bangladesh

Islamists warned they may "besiege" the US embassy in Dhaka after security forces stopped around 1,000 protesters marching to the building. The Khelafat Andolon group called for bigger protests as demonstrators threw their fists in the air, burned the flag and chanted anti-US slogans.

There was a Hamas-organised protest in Gaza City, 

and as many as 100 Arab Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv. 

In Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai postponed a trip to Norway, fearing violence. 

Officials in Pakistan said they "expected protests". 

Protesters in Tunis burned US flags.

Lt. Gen. Jerry Boynton, USA (Ret.)

The historical evidence is in.

We've seen the carnage, we've heard the lies - 

over and over again.

Sworn enemies of the USA and its people have been honored

at state dinners in the people's White House.

Now "We the People" must apply the remedies granted by the

Constitution of the United States of America.

We must act on the evidence, and as we do, let us sing . . .

  Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand  

  between their loved homes,  

  and the war's desolation.  

  Blessed with victory and peace  

  May the heav'n-rescued land  

  Praise the Power that hath made  

  and preserved us a nation.  

  Then conquer we must  

  when our cause it is just. 

  And this be our motto,  

  In God is our trust.  

  And the Star-Spangled Banner  

  in triumph shall wave  

  O'er the Land of the Free  

   and the Home of the Brave!  

  Star Spangled Banner  

  last stanza