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Carry teams move flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, from a transport plane during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. -
Carry teams move flag draped transfer cases of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya, from a transport plane during the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. -
A pall of smoke rises above protesters after they set alight cars in the U.S. embassy parking lot in Tunis, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. some thousands of demonstrators massed outside the embassy and several were seen climbing the outer wall of the embassy grounds, an Associated Press reporter on the scene said. -
A cordon of riot police officers guard the US embassy in Tunis, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as demonstrators protest against an anti-Islam film. Angry demonstrations against a perceived anti-Islamic film spread around the Middle East Friday. -
An Egyptian protester with covers his face during clashes with security forces, not shown, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. The protests are part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian riot police throw stones at protesters, unseen, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, unseen, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, not shown, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. The protests are part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
A Sudanese protester stands on a barricade during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. -
Israeli police detain a Palestinian demonstrator during a protest in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Israeli police detain a Palestinian demonstrator during a protest in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Palestinian Hamas supporters burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian protesters clash with security forces, not shown, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. The protests are part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
An injured Egyptian youth protester takes cover behind a metal barrier during clashes with riot police, unseen, behind cement blocks that are used to close the street leading to the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
An Egyptian protester throws back a tear gas canister toward riot police, unseen, behind cement blocks that are used to close the street leading to the U.S. embassy during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian protesters evacuate an injured youth toward a waiting ambulance, unseen, during clashes with security forces, unseen by the street leading to the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
Egyptian protesters carry an injured comrade from the site of clashes with security forces, unseen, near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. -
An Egyptian protester throws a gas canister away during clashes near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Protesters clashed with police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for the third day in a row. Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi vowed to protect foreign embassies in Cairo, where police were using tear gas to disperse protesters at the U.S. mission. -
A protester is rushed to a medical tent after teargas was released near Tahrir Square, September 12, 2012, in Cairo, Egypt. Protests turned to violence as riot police confronted protesters near the U.S. Embassy. -
Bloodstains at the main gate believed to be from one of the American staff members of the U.S. Consulate, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
A Libyan man explains that the bloodstains on the column are from one the American staff members who grabbed the edge of the column while he was evacuated, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
A burnt car in front of U.S. consulate, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, in Benghazi, Libya, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
A disabled Egyptian protester throws a gas canister away during clashes near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Protesters clashed with police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for the third day in a row. Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi vowed to protect foreign embassies in Cairo, where police were using tear gas to disperse protesters at the U.S. mission. -
A Yemeni soldier stands guard as protestors demonstrate to denounce terror attacks and hail the decisions by Yemen's president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi to replace security officials in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Yemen's defense minister narrowly escaped assassination Tuesday when a powerful car bomb ripped through his motorcade as it traveled in the nation's capital, killing at least 13 people in an attack that bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida. -
Sept 12, 2012 - Sana'a, Yemen - A Yemeni protesttor shouts slogans as thousands of protestors took to the streets during a demonstration condemning the terrorist bombings in Yemen. Two suicide car bombs targeting the country's defence minister killed at least 12 people. -
Yemeni soldiers stand guard as protestors demonstrate, unseen, to denounce terror attacks and hail the decisions by Yemen's president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi to replace security officials in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. -
Yemeni protestors break a widow of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film "The Innocence of Muslims" deemed blasphemous and Islamophobic. -
Yemeni protestors climb the gate of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film "The Innocence of Muslims" deemed blasphemous and Islamophobic. -
Protestors march during a demonstration to denounce terror attacks and hail the decisions by Yemen's president Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi to replace security officials in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. -
Sept. 13, 2012 - Sanaa, Yemen - Yemeni protestors break the windows of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa. At least one protestor was killed in clashes when Yemeni security forces tried to disperses hundreds of angry demonstrators who gathered around and inside the Embassy as anger spread across the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film made in the US. -
A protester confronts with police in a street, which leads to the U.S. Embassy near Cairo's Tahrir Square in Egypt, Thursday, September 13, 2012. Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a U.S.-made video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters attacked the U.S. Embassy, two days after assailants killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya and crowds tried to overrun the embassy compound in Cairo. -
Yemeni demonstrators climb up the front door of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, Thursday, September 13, 2012. At least one protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security forces tried to disperses hundreds of angry demonstrators who gathered around and inside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world over a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. -
Yemeni protesters break windows of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, Thursday, September 13, 2012. At least one protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security forces tried to disperses hundreds of angry demonstrators who gathered around and inside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world over a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said. -
A protestor reacts from tear gas firied by riot police, unseen, near the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Yemen's president has apologized to President Barack Obama for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, by a mob angry over an anti-Islam film. -
Protesters carry a wounded man from by police near the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
Police, unseen, use water cannons to disperse protesters near the U.S. Embassy during a demonstration about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
Protesters run as police, unseen, open fire into the air near the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. -
Yemeni protesters shout slogans outside the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, September 13, 2012. At least one protester was killed in clashes when Yemeni security forces tried to disperses hundreds of angry demonstrators who gathered around and inside the Embassy as anger spread across the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film made in the United States. -
Yemeni protestors break a door of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film "The Innocence of Muslims" deemed blasphemous and Islamophobic. -
President Barack Obama delivers remarks beside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, on the killing of US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three embassy staff, Wednesday, September 12, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. Gunmen attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, killing Stevens and three others, late September 11, 2012, while another assault took place on the US embassy in Cairo. -
President Barack Obama delivers remarks beside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, on the killing of US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three embassy staff, Wednesday, September 12, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. -
President Barack Obama walks down the Colonnade with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, to deliver remarks on the killing of US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three embassy staff, Wednesday, September 12, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. -
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton follows President Barack Obama to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, to deliver a statement on the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. -
Supporters waiting outside try to catch a glimpse of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as he makes comments on the killing of U.S. embassy officials in Benghazi, Libya, while speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. -
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, meets with State Department personnel in the courtyard of the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after speaking at the White House concerning the recent deaths of Americans in Libya. -
President Barack Obama, followed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, walks to meet with State Department personnel in the courtyard of the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after speaking at the White House concerning the recent deaths of Americans in Libya. -
Libyans walk on the grounds of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. -
A man walks through a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Partial graffiti reads, "akbar," Arabic for "great." -
Libyans gather at the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Partial graffiti reads, "Hamza." -
Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. -
A man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The graffiti reads, "no God but God," "God is great," and "Muhammad is the Prophet." -
In this June 7, 2012 file photograph, newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens (left) presents his credentials to NTC (National Transition Council) Chairman Mustafa Abd Al-Jalil in Tripoli. -
In this April 11, 2011, file photograph, U.S. envoy Chris Stevens waits at a press conference in Benghazi, Libya. -
In this photo taken Monday, April 11, 2011, then U.S. envoy Chris Stevens, center, accompanied by British envoy Christopher Prentice, left, speaks to Council member for Misrata Dr. Suleiman Fortia, right, at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. -
Aug. 26, 2012 - CHRISTOPHER STEVENS during a press conference in Tripoli. -
Aug. 26, 2012 - CHRISTOPHER STEVENS during an opening of part of the consular in Tripoli. -
In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Tripoli Facebook page on Aug. 12, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, poses with a shop owner in Tripoli, Libya. -
In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Tripoli Facebook page on Aug. 12, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, right, talks to boys in Tripoli, Libya. -
In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Tripoli Facebook page on Aug. 27, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, shakes hands with a Libyan man in Tripoli, Libya. -
In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Tripoli Facebook page on Aug. 27, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, walks with an unidentified translator during a tour of Assaraya al-Hamra, or the Red Castle in Tripoli, Libya. -
In this photo taken Monday, April 11, 2011, then U.S. envoy Chris Stevens attends meetings at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. -
This undated photo released by the U.S. State Department shows U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens in an official portrait.
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