Attack US Embassy In Tunisia
14 Sep, 2012
Protesters have entered the US embassy in the Tunisian capital Tunis in the latest violence sparked by an anti-Muslim film.
A large fire could be seen burning inside the compound. Police fired teargas at the crowds, who broke windows and set fire to trees.
In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, some 5,000 protesters attacked the British and German embassies.
Demonstrators broke into the German compound, pulling down the German flag and flying a black Islamic flag above the building. They also smashed windows and started a fire in front of the main gate.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who then moved on to the nearby British embassy in Khartoum East.
Britain’s Foreign Office said: “We can confirm an ongoing demonstration outside the British Embassy in Khartoum. Sudanese police are at the scene.”
Outside the city, thousands of protesters arrived in buses and cars to gather on the main street near the heavily-fortified US embassy. They lit several fires, as police fired tear gas to disperse them.
Unrest has spread across the Middle East, provoked by a US-made video depicting the Prophet Mohammed having sex, calling for massacres, and as a homosexual.
In Lebanon, hundreds of protesters chanting anti-American slogans set fire to a KFC restaurant in the northern city of Tripoli. One demonstrator was killed in the violence.
Locals watching the attack said people were shouting: “We don’t want the Pope” and “No more insults (to Islam)”.
It came as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon.
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters clashed with police guarding the US embassy in Cairo.
They attacked a 15ft-high concrete wall built by police across the road to the fortified US compound near Tahrir Square. TV pictures showed demonstrators throwing stones, and police throwing stones back.
In Yemen, security forces clashed with hundreds of protesters near the US embassy in Sanaa, a day after demonstrators stormed the compound.
Reports said US marines had flown into Sanaa’s international airport on Thursday to bolster the embassy’s security.
At least one person died and 15 were injured during Thursday’s demonstration. Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi condemned the attack.
In Bangladesh, some 10,000 protesters burned American and Israeli flags and chanted “God is Great” and “Smash the black hands of Jews” as they tried to march to the US embassy in the capital Dhaka.
They were stopped by hundreds of armed police and armoured personnel carriers.
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, 250 riot police guarded the US embassy in Jakarta as some 450 people protested outside. Some carried banners reading: “We condemn the insult against Allah’s messenger” and “There is no God but Allah”.
Britain’s Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has raised concerns about the potential for the unrest to spread to Afghanistan. In a newspaper interview, he said security is being boosted around British bases.
The violence followed Tuesday night’s storming of the US Consulate and a safe house in Benghazi, Libya, in which the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other American officials were killed.
President Barack Obama said the perpetrators would be tracked down and ordered two destroyers to head to the Libyan coast.
Eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister, Wanis el Sharef, said the film protests were a cover for a violent assault planned to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
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