On Tuesday September 11th, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks back in 2001 there was an attack that killed the american ambassador in Libya. After looking over what happened Obama has said that it is thought of as a planned attack. That conclusion is due to this attack being compared to another attack in Cario where they have said it looked spontaneous killing other americans. This event happened with the men shooting rockets at the ambassador in Benghazi who might have been waiting for him while he was going to a safer place. This attack was also the Mohammed Magarief the president of their national assembly said he was sorry for the attacks and called it "cowardly". Obama was happy about the fact that Libya security had people who fought back against the people who were attacking to protect the americans. The event that happened has made people question how vulnerable American officers are when they don't think something is going to go wrong. It is also possible that because of the fact that it happened on 9/11 that Libya might be plotting against America, which means they have to start paying much closer attention to any unusual actions or communications that might be going on between the people they were around. This isn't the first time this has happened 5 other ambassadors from the United States have been killed there before, even kidnapped, but that has not happened since 1979. One of the men died from smoke inhalation because the building was also set on fire by the mob, they tried for 90 minutes to save his life, but unfortunately it didn't turn out as they had hoped. It was a very unjustified act from those men.
News Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/middleeast/us-envoy-to-libya-is-reported-killed.html?pagewanted=1
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