13-09-2012, 10:20 AM
Yemen: US Embassy Stormed
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Protesters have stormed the US embassy in Yemen as demonstrations about an anti-Muslim film spread in the Middle East.
Up to 5,000 protesters are trying to get into the US compound in Sanaa, according to local reports.
Hundreds got past two police barricades and managed to get inside the building. They were then driven back by security forces firing weapons into the air.
TV pictures showed Yemenis trying to scale walls to get back into the compound.
The violence came a day after the US embassy was attacked in Benghazi in Libya.
US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials died as gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and set fire to the building.
The US is investigating whether the deadly attack was a co-ordinated terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity.
It had been thought it was a spontaneous protest provoked by an American-made anti-Islam film, which is being promoted on YouTube and is said to insult the Prophet Mohammed.
But a US counterterrorism official has said the Benghazi violence was "too co-ordinated or professional" to be spontaneous.
The Pentagon has announced it is moving two warships to the Libyan coast and a group of Marines has been dispatched to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
The ships, which carry Tomahawk missiles, do not have a specific mission but will give commanders flexibility to respond to any mission ordered by President Barack Obama, officials said.
Protests in the Egyptian capital continued overnight as demonstrators clashed with police near the US embassy. Police were pelted with rocks and responded with a charge at the protesters and continued with their firing tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In Tunisia, police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the air to disperse a protest by around 200 people near the US embassy in the capital Tunis, apparently about the film.
Opponents say the $5m (£3.1) film, called The Innocence Of Muslims, depicts Mohammed as a fraud and shows him having sex and calling for massacres.
The US Navy has already moved the destroyer, the USS Laboon, to a position off the Libyan coast and the USS McFaul is en route and should be stationed off the coast within days.
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Protesters have stormed the US embassy in Yemen as demonstrations about an anti-Muslim film spread in the Middle East.
Up to 5,000 protesters are trying to get into the US compound in Sanaa, according to local reports.
Hundreds got past two police barricades and managed to get inside the building. They were then driven back by security forces firing weapons into the air.
TV pictures showed Yemenis trying to scale walls to get back into the compound.
The violence came a day after the US embassy was attacked in Benghazi in Libya.
US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials died as gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and set fire to the building.
The US is investigating whether the deadly attack was a co-ordinated terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity.
It had been thought it was a spontaneous protest provoked by an American-made anti-Islam film, which is being promoted on YouTube and is said to insult the Prophet Mohammed.
But a US counterterrorism official has said the Benghazi violence was "too co-ordinated or professional" to be spontaneous.
The Pentagon has announced it is moving two warships to the Libyan coast and a group of Marines has been dispatched to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
The ships, which carry Tomahawk missiles, do not have a specific mission but will give commanders flexibility to respond to any mission ordered by President Barack Obama, officials said.
Protests in the Egyptian capital continued overnight as demonstrators clashed with police near the US embassy. Police were pelted with rocks and responded with a charge at the protesters and continued with their firing tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In Tunisia, police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the air to disperse a protest by around 200 people near the US embassy in the capital Tunis, apparently about the film.
Opponents say the $5m (£3.1) film, called The Innocence Of Muslims, depicts Mohammed as a fraud and shows him having sex and calling for massacres.
The US Navy has already moved the destroyer, the USS Laboon, to a position off the Libyan coast and the USS McFaul is en route and should be stationed off the coast within days.
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