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Anti-American protests continue in the Middle East U.S. diplomatic compounds continue to come under attack in Egypt, Yemen and other countries.
Sept. 16, 2012
A Pakistani man runs past a burning police van during a protest rally in Karachi organized by Pakistan Shiite Muslims against an anti-Islam movie. At least three people were injured after protesters at a rally in the port city clashed with the police. Seventeen people have died in violence linked to the film, including four Americans killed in Benghazi; 11 protesters who died as police battled to defend U.S. missions from mobs in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen; and two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Rizwan Tabassum
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Sept. 16, 2012
Pakistani policemen use a water cannon to disperse Shiite Muslim protesters during a rally in Karachi against an anti-Islam movie.
Asif Hassan
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 16, 2012
Pakistani Shiite Muslim protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans as they attempt to reach the U.S. Consulate in Karachi during a rally against an anti-Islam movie.
Asif Hassan
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 14, 2012
Protesters help an injured man, who was hurt during clashes, along a road leading to the U.S. Embassy near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
Riot police collect stones during clashes with protesters along a road leading to the U.S. Embassy near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
A protester reacts from a tear gas canister thrown by riot police, during clashes in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
Sept. 14, 2012
A protester shouts slogans as he stands on a burnt car in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Protesters carry a man who was injured during clashes along a road that leads to the U.S. Embassy near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Mohamed Abd el Ghany
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Egyptian protesters run for cover from tear gas during clashes near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Protesters run as riot police fire tear gas outside the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.
Khaled Abdullah
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
A protester looks to the camera after sustaining injuries from a confrontation with riot police who fired tear gas at protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Men try to break through the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, during a protest over a controversial movie called “Innocence of Muslims.” Some officials have cast doubt on the theory that violence grew spontaneously out of anger over the film.
Mohammed Huwais
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 13, 2012
Protesters climb a fence surrounding the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the embassy Thursday apparently in protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Protesters break windows at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
A riot policeman passes a burning vehicle during clashes outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's prophet Muhammad.
Hussein Talal
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
President Obama, alongside Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House about the death of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Chip Somodevilla
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Sept. 12, 2012
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) lead a moment of silence at the Capitol for U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans who were killed in Libya.
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Sept. 12, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a news conference at his campaign office in Jacksonville, Fla. Romney defended his criticism of the Obama administration after attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya, charging that a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo amounted to "an apology for American principles."
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Sept. 12, 2012
Ali Aujali, Libya’s ambassador to the United States, speaks during a news conference held by the Islamic Society of North America and interfaith groups in Washington. They condemned the violence that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and other Americans in Libya.
Win McNamee
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Sept. 12, 2012
An exterior view of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen Tuesday.
Esam Omran al-Fetori
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Reuters
Sept. 12, 2012
People stand near a burnt car at the consulate.
Esam Omran al-Fetori
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Reuters
Sept. 12, 2012
A man stands inside the consulate in Benghazi.
Esam Omran al-Fetori
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Reuters
Sept. 12, 2012
An interior view of the damage at the U.S. Consulate.
Esam Omran al-Fetori
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Reuters
April 11, 2011
J. Christopher Stevens, seen in this April 2011 photo, and three other Americans were killed Tuesday in an assault on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the White House says. Stevens, a longtime Middle East hand in the State Department, was named ambassador to Libya in May. He had worked in Libya for a number of years, both before and after the fall of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
Ben Curtis
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was heavily damaged in Tuesday’s attack. Gunmen reportedly attacked the compound on Tuesday evening, clashing with Libyan security forces before the latter withdrew as they came under heavy fire.
Esam Al-Fetori
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
“We condemn this vicious and violent attack that took their lives, which they had committed to helping the Libyan people reach for a better future,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement.
Esam Al-Fetori
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Protesters entered its outer grounds, pulled down an American flag, then tried to burn it outside the embassy walls, according to witnesses.
Mohammed Abu Zaid
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Protesters chant slogans amid orange smoke outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Mohammed Abu Zaid
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Egyptian protesters chant anti-U.S. slogans in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. It was not immediately clear how many Americans were inside the embassy at the time of the incident or whether any arrests were made.
Nasser Nasser
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Egyptian protesters climb the walls of the U.S. Embassy while others chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in Cairo. "We are, obviously, working with Egyptian security to try to restore order at the embassy," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "We all want to see peaceful protests, which is not what happened outside the U.S. mission, so we’re trying to restore calm now."
Nasser Nasser
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo against a wall of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Nasser Nasser
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Protesters shout slogans and light flares in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
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