Clinton: Libya Attack Should Shock Conscience of All Faiths

U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three embassy staff have been killed after a mob angered over an amateur American-made short film that mocks Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday.

U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three embassy staff have been killed after a mob angered over an amateur American-made short film that mocks Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday.

Stevens, a 21-year career U.S. foreign service officer and one of the most experienced U.S. envoys in the region, had taken up his post in the capital, Tripoli, in May.

His death was the first of an American envoy abroad in more than 20 years. The U.S. State Department reported that U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer, Sean Smith, was also killed. It did not identify the two other victims.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned “in strongest terms” the mob attack in Benghazi. She says “heavily armed militants” set fire to the consulate building, and the attack should “shock the conscience” of all faiths.

Clinton says Americans serving accross the world are a “force for peace and progress in the world” that believe “these aspirations are worth fighting for.”

She said the questions arise, “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate? In a city we helped save from destruction?”