Washington: The al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa Tuesday urged Muslims in the region to kill US government representatives and called the death of ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens a "gift", CNN reported.
"We encourage all Muslims to continue to demonstrate and escalate their protests... and to kill their ambassadors and representatives or to expel them to cleanse our land from their wickedness," said a statement from the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The group said the killing of Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya, was "the best gift you give to his arrogant and unjust administration".
The outfit said the envoy's death was a fallout from a low-budget, amateurish 14-minute clip posted on YouTube that allegedly insults Islam....
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11:21 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Benghazi: The US dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. Tuesday's stunning attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi poses a daunting task for US and...
08:52 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to bring to justice the killers of the US ambassador and three other diplomats in Libya as he sought to avoid election-year fallout from an attack that cast a spotlight on his administration's handling of "Arab Spring" unrest. Standing in the White House Rose Garden, Obama condemned the attack in Benghazi as "outrageous and shocking" but insisted it would not harm relations with...
08:36 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: Well-armed Libyan extremists launched a sustained attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, killing four State Department employees, including the American ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and foreign service officer Sean Smith, and wounding three others. The consulate, like all other US diplomatic missions around the world, conducted a pre-9/11 anniversary security check. It found no imminent threat and therefore no need to boost security around...
08:24 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: The US Senate has confirmed career diplomat James Cunningham as ambassador to Afghanistan, replacing Ryan Crocker, who stepped down due to health reasons. The Senate confirmation, among the long list of ambassadors, came as the Congress began a five-week summer break. Cunningham has been serving as deputy ambassador at the US embassy in Kabul since June 2011. Earlier, he was the US ambassador to Israel. He also held senior...
11:17 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up after superannuation next month-end. Sources said Rao's appointment to succeed Meera Shankar as the US Ambassador has been cleared by the government and a formal announcement is expected soon. The 1973-batch IFS officer assumed the office of the Foreign Secretary on August one, 2009, becoming the second...
07:32 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: US official Raymond Davis, arrested after he shot and killed two Pakistani men he claimed were trying to rob him, was today remanded to judicial custody for 14 days by a local court in Lahore. Lahore Police Chief said, "Investigators reject Raymond's self defence plea. Davis tried to kill fleeing boy." Pakistan High Court will also hear petition regarding diplomatic immunity. Davis was brought to the judicial magistrate's...
12:34 PM, Feb 11, 2011
The bomb explosion tore through a mosque in the Aka Khel area of Khyber. ...
09:18 PM, Feb 18, 2010
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09:28 PM, Aug 12, 2009
America's ambassador to Nepal expressed regret after a public outrage triggered by the visa denial. ...
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