“They call us the terrorists? But everyone is terrorizing our people!”-Sarah Jacob, Australian protestor
15 September 2012, in Australia, police tear gassed hundreds of protestors. At least six cops and several protestors were wounded. Eight people arrested.
The producer of the movie, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, surrendered himself to Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputies, in California. He is being questioned about violating his federal probation.
It also turns out that he did not actually direct the anti-Islam movie. Gawker.com claims they’ve talked to many of the actors in the movie, and they say it was directed by porn man Alan Roberts.
In Belgium, 120 people detained during protests.
The U.S. Department of State has ordered all non-essential diplomatic personnel to evacuate Sudan and Tunisia!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation put on hold their trip to Libya, citing the ongoing violence! This after the Obama administration said they would comment no longer on the anti-U.S. violence: “I’m going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this happened, not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it, until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation.”-Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman
U.S. Representatives on the House Intelligence Committee revealed that this was not the first time the U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked, in fact they said it was attacked four previous times in the past few months: “It’s clearly a target that they wanted to hit and they wanted to cause casualties…..It’s just too many coincidences here.”–Mike Rogers, Representative for Michigan’s 8th congressional district
President Obama had said that there was no “actionable intelligence” that the consulate was going to be attacked.
On 14 September a report by the Office of Management and Budget said budget cuts under sequestration will reduce funding for U.S. embassy/consulate security by $129 million USD: “Members of Congress should work together to produce a balanced plan that achieves at least the level of deficit reduction agreed to in the BCA that the President can sign to avoid sequestration.”
The United Nations evacuated personnel from Libya, for security reasons.
A few days ago the airport in Benghazi, Libya, had been closed to allow U.S. drones to patrol. Apparently the airport was closed again, for several hours, this time due to security issues.
In France, dozens of people were detained for questionable identifications, during protests outside the U.S. embassy.
Al Qaeda in Yemen is demanding the deaths of all U.S. diplomats!
In Lebanon, police surrounded a Burger King when they heard it was going to be attacked.
In China, an official government statement said they would never piss off Muslims: “We are against of any actions to vilify the image of Islam or to hurt the feelings of Muslims. We believe the dignity of a religion should not be vilified or defamed.”–Hong Lei, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman
However, there are thousands of Muslims (even Buddhists) in China that would dispute that claim.