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By Peter Graff and Suleiman Al-Khalidi | Reuters – 44 mins ago

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Pro-government demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, aiming to evict fighters from the site, Reuters witnesses said.
Ansar al-Sharia has been linked to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died. It denies involvement.
Friday's action against the group appeared to be part of a coordinated sweep of militia headquarters buildings by police, government troops and activists following a mass public demonstration against militia units earlier in the day.
Chanting "Libya, Libya", hundreds of demonstrators entered, pulling down militia flags and torching a vehicle inside the compound, the group's main base in Benghazi.
The crowd waved swords and even a meat cleaver, crying "No more Al Qaeda!" and "The blood we shed for freedom shall not go in vain!"
"After what happened at the American consulate, the people of Benghazi had enough of the extremists," said demonstrator Hassan Ahmed. "They did not give allegiance to the army. So the people broke in and they fled."
There was no sign of resistance from the militia at the compound, once the base of forces of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
"It looks like they (militia fighters) wanted to defuse the situation so they fled," Ahmed said.
"This place is like the Bastille. This is where Gaddafi controlled Libya from, and then Ansar al-Sharia took it over. This is a turning point for the people of Benghazi."
The demonstrators also took over a compound belonging to the Abu Slim Brigade, another independent militia, and another compound belonging to Ansar al-Sharia.
Thousands of Libyans had earlier marched in Benghazi in support of democracy and against the Islamist militias that Washington blames for the assault on its consulate. Hundreds of Ansar al-Sharia supporters held their own protest.
The "Rescue Benghazi day" demonstration called for the government to disband armed groups that have refused to give up their weapons since the NATO-backed revolution last year.
"It's obvious that this protest is against the militias. All of them should join the army or security forces as individuals, not as groups," medical student Ahmed Sanallah, 27, said. "Without that there will be no prosperity and no success for the new Libya."
"DEFEND BENGHAZI"
Although the main demands of the marchers did not mention the attack on the U.S. consulate, it seems to have provided a strong impetus for the authorities to rally support behind the country's weak government.
U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens was well liked, and many Libyans condemned the attack on the consulate despite being angered by the anti-Islamic U.S.-made film that triggered it.
Some protesters' placards in English read: "We demand justice for Stevens" and "Libya lost a friend".

Yeah,,,,

it's a False Flag Incident...

Alex Jones says so....

No no..
Your confusing Art Bell with Alex Jones,,

AJ is a RP sychophant,,,,

you know...

ha !!

So, what you're saying is if the new Libyan government and Egyptian government don't do anything about islamic extremists, it's bad, and if they do soething about Islamic extremists, that's bad. I'm sure however, if a Republican administration was in the White House, it would all be good in your book, regardless of which way it was going.

You use buzz words like "rogue nation" and absolutes such as "never", and catch phrases like "recipe for success", mix them all together and you have a baseless, assertion phrased as an absolute truth and put forth with such certitude that it leaves no doubt that you are totally lacking any capability for introspection. Keep doling out the homey foreign affairs advice from that rockin' chair on the porch by the ole' cracker barrel.

So you must've pulled the ass-ertion/speculation that a Republican potus would've taken security measures that would've prevented the latest consulate attacks out of that nether orifice. The historical record shows US embassies attacked under both administrations, some successful, some not. No pattern emerges to show that there's some discernible difference if one party is in the White House or the other. Just keep on throwing out baseless arguments.

_Sept. 12, 2006: Syrian security guards foil an attempt to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. Three gunmen and a Syrian guard were killed when guards exchanged gunfire with assailants outside the compound walls. A fourth attacker was shot as he fled in an explosives-laden truck. He died a day later. No American was hurt, but a dozen other people were wounded.

_March 20, 2002: A car bombing by the Shining Path rebels killed 10 Peruvians and injured 30 others in an outdoor shopping plaza across from the U.S. Embassy in Lima. The attack came three days before a visit by President Bush.

_Aug. 7, 1998: Twelve Americans were among the 236 people killed in nearly simultaneous bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks later were attributed to al-Qaida.

_July 27, 1993: Guerrillas presumed by police to be members of Shining Path set off car bomb in front of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, wounding four people. A Peruvian was killed in his car in the crossfire between guards and guerrillas.

_Sept. 20, 1984: A suicide truck-bomb explosion at the U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut killed at least 14 people, including two Americans and 12 Lebanese. Almost 70 people were wounded.

_Dec. 12, 1983: Members of an underground Shiite group arranged truck bombings that killed at least four people and wounded more than 80 at the French Embassy and the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.

_April 18, 1983: Sixty-three people were killed when a pickup truck loaded with explosives blew up at entrance to U.S. Embassy in Beirut, demolishing most of the building. The dead included 17 Americans, while 112 people were wounded, including 40 Americans. At the time, a shadowy Shiite Muslim group calling itself Islamic Holy War took responsibility for the attack.

_Nov. 21, 1979: A mob of Pakistanis attacked the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, leaving Americans trapped in the burning building for hours. Two Americans died.

_Nov. 4, 1979: About 500 Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Teheran along with about 90 hostages, including up to 65 Americans. Six Americans escaped. The Iranian hostage crisis lasts 444 days until Jan. 20, 1981, when 52 remaining U.S. hostages were freed.

_April 29, 1975: Hours before fall of Saigon, the U.S. completed an airlift of all Americans and thousands of South Vietnamese. After the embassy was abandoned on April 30, thousands of Vietnamese invaded and looted the building.