Libya: U.S. sends marines and warships to Libya after al-Qaeda attack killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others
President Obama denounced the wave of violence that swept through the Middle East and claimed the lives of four Americans in Libya including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens.
The envoy was killed after gun-toting protesters stormed the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city.
The attack, and a related embassy-storming in Egypt, was seemingly sparked by fury over a low-budget film produced in California that some found offensive to Muslims, but federal sources told CNN that an al-Qaeda-affiliated group responsible for a previous armed assault on the consulate may have taken advantage of the demonstration to attack on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.