USA Sends Two Warships, 50 Marines to Secure Tripoli Embassy After US Ambassador Killed in Benghazi
Washington has deployed two U.S. Navy destroyers and 50 Marines to Libya in response to the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi.
The troops have been dispatched to provide security at the main U.S. Embassy in the capital, Tripoli, where staff numbers are being cut to emergency levels. Staff also were being evacuated from the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
U.S. officials were quoted as saying the military was moving two U.S. destroyers toward the Libyan coast “as a precautionary measure.”
Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama has called the leaders of Egypt and Libya to discuss security cooperation. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo also was stormed late on September 11 by a crowd of Muslim protesters said to be angry about a film privately produced in the United States that insults the Prophet Muhammad.
Initial reports said Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed by a mob in eastern Libya that was angry about the same film.
But Washington was reportedly investigating whether the assault was a plot by Al-Qaeda affiliates or sympathizers who used the protests as a diversion for a coordinated attack on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
U.S. officials say they already have unmanned drone aircraft at their disposal to help track militants who may have carried out the Benghazi attack.
U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to bring to justice those who killed Stevens and three other Americans.
Obama stressed that the Benghazi attack would not break the bond between Washington and Tripoli.
The US embassy in Benghazi was attacked yesterday. Four persons including ambassador Christopher Stevens reported to be killed killed in a protest over a US-produced film that is said to insult the Prophet Muhammad.
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