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Protesters angry over an amateurish US-made video denouncing Islam attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing a US employee, while Egyptian demonstrators stormed over the fortified walls of the US Embassy.
On the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, the assaults were a violent reminder that the changes sweeping the region have hardly dispelled the rage against the United States still smoldering in pockets around the Arab world.
The mobs were set off by reports that a Florida pastor had proclaimed September 11 "International Judge Mohammad Day" and was promoting the new video, which mocks Islam's founding prophet.
In a statement Tuesday, the pastor, the Reverend Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, called the film "an American production, not designed to attack Muslims but to show the destructive ideology of Islam" and said it "reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad".