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 embassy in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city. “The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack,” Obama said Wednesday morning from the Rose Garden, joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Since our founding the U.S. is a nation that respects all faiths,” the president added. “There is no justification of this type of senseless violence. None.” Esam Al-Fetori/REUTERS An interior view of the U.S. consulate after the attack that took the life of a U.S. ambassador and several others.
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. federal sources told CNN that a group of terrorists - possibly working for an Al-Qaeda spin-off - may have taken advantage of the demonstration to stage their attack.
The violence in the Middle East also sent a shockwave through the presidential campaign - and Republican Mitt Romney raised eyebrows by slamming the Obama Administration during a national moment of grief.
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