CAIRO -- Days of planning and online promotion by hard-line Islamist
leaders helped whip up the mobs that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Egypt
and launched a deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya that killed an
ambassador and three others.
As the U.S.
tightened security worldwide at embassies and Libya's president
apologized for the attack, details emerged of how the violence began,
according to experts who monitor Egyptian media.
The killings there followed demonstrations in
front of Cairo's U.S. Embassy, where protesters tore down the U.S. flag
and scaled the embassy's wall.
The protest was planned by Salafists well before news circulated of an objectionable video ridiculing Islam's prophet, Mohammed, said Eric Trager, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The
protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was announced Aug. 30 by
Jamaa Islamiya, a State Department-designated terrorist group, to
protest the ongoing imprisonment of its spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar
abdel Rahman. He is serving a life sentence in the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center. (Full Story at USA Today)
2 comments:
The terrorists are executing a long ago planned agenda This attack on the US Embassy in Lybia was the result the video that run all over the net and the one of those excuses they were waiting for to carry on an attack. Now they are getting bolder than ever before. This is a dangerous path toward an escaliting
and globalizing the War on Terrorism.
The USA must get the aid and support from all other weestern nations, not only diplomatically but with tangential and solid military help.
The terrorists are executing a long ago planned agenda. This attack on the US Embassy in Lybia was the result of the video that ran all over the net and one of those excuses they were waiting for to carry on a new attack. Now they are getting bolder than ever before. This is a dangerous path toward an escalating
and globalizing the War on Terrorism.
The USA must get the aid and support from all other western nations, not only diplomatically but with tangential and solid military help.
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