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American ambassador to Libya killed by protesters, Al Arabiya reports | The Times of Israel.

( My GOD!  Radical Islam strikes again… – JW )

Violent mob spurred by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad, produced by an Israeli filmmaker living in California

US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stephens (photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

One of four Americans killed when an angry mob stormed the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was the American ambassador, Chris Stevens, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday. Earlier reports had indicated that only one American national — a consular official — had died in the riot.

Violent protesters also stormed the US Embassy in Cairo Tuesday night, scaling the walls of the compound and replacing an American flag with an Islamic banner.

The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing the prophet Muhammad, produced by an Israeli filmmaker living in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States.

A 14-minute trailer of the movie that sparked the protests, posted on the website YouTube in an original English version and another dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres.

These were the first such assaults on US diplomatic facilities in either country, at a time when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to overcome the turmoil following the ouster of their longtime leaders, Muammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak, in uprisings last year.

Sam Bacile, the writer, director and producer of the movie, which he says showcases his view of Islam as a hateful religion, was funded by $5 million from about 100 Jewish donors who he declined to identify, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

In Benghazi, a large mob stormed the US Consulate, with gunmen firing their weapons, said Wanis al-Sharef, an Interior Ministry official in Bengazi. A witness said attackers fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the consulate as they clashed with Libyans hired to guard the facility.

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