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Mob sets fire to US consulate in Benghazi: witness
AFP, Tuesday 11 Sep 2012

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An armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam, attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday and set fire to the building, witnesses reported.
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The ground war in Afghanistan hotted up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taleban zealots by proving the non-existence of God.
Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets', will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of pavement cafes at strategic points near the front lines. There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely isolation in the universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will further spread dismay by sticking their tongues in the philosophers' ears every five minutes and looking remote and unattainable to everyone else.
Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taleban are caught in a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous. There is no God and I can prove it. Take your tongue out of my ear, Juliet, I am talking."
Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's nauseating freedom of action with special reference to the work of Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
However, humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects of passive smoking from the Frenchmens' endless Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area.
Speculation was mounting last night that Britain may also contribute to the effort by dropping Professor Stephen Hawking into Afghanistan to propagate his non-deistic theory of the creation of the universe.
Other tactics to demonstrate the non-existence of God will include the dropping of leaflets pointing out the fact that Michael Jackson has a new album out and Oprah Winfrey has not died yet.
This is only one of several Psy-Ops operations mounted by the Allies to undermine the unswerving religious fanaticism that fuels the Taleban's fighting spirit. Pentagon sources have recently confirmed rumours that America has already sent in a 200-foot-tall robot Jesus, which roams the Taleban front lines glowing eerily and shooting flames out of its fingers while saying, 'I am the way, the truth and the life, follow me or die.' However, plans to have the giant Christ kick the crap out of a slightly effeminate 80-foot Mohammed in central Kabul were discarded as insensitive to Muslim allies.

hillary clinton wrote:Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet," Clinton said. "The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.

protobuilder wrote:They sunk our Ambassador!

It hurts to say it, but Hillary handled this better than both Obama and Romney.

hillary clinton wrote:Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet," Clinton said. "The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.

Grandpa's Spells wrote:I get the Marines letting some people climb over the wall and demonstrate, but how do 50 or 60 rioters not get killed before anybody gets within 50 ft of the fucking Ambassador?

Edit: Google indicates there were no Marines.

Hymen Asshole wrote:
Have any of y'all been able to find this supposed video?

Terry B. wrote:In searching for this, news outlets seem more intent on criticizing Romney for saying that perhaps the US shouldn't have synthesizing with the protesters.

Grandpa's Spells wrote:

Terry B. wrote:In searching for this, news outlets seem more intent on criticizing Romney for saying that perhaps the US shouldn't have synthesizing with the protesters.

Romney is being a lie-man on this one. It's particularly disgusting, hence the criticism.

Terry B. wrote:This kind of thing happened all the time when Gaddafi was in control of things.

Herv100 wrote:Well, since we helped our buddies from Al Quaeda overthrow the secular dictator, it should be no problem having them catch these bad guys and put them to trial!

Terry B. wrote:This kind of thing happened all the time when Gaddafi was in control of things.

Time for us to wake the fuck up the Middle East is just getting going

Andy78 wrote:So a handful of Marines armed with light weaponry are supposed to put down a huge crowd of frenzied psychotic raghead cocksuckers?l

Jezebel Jones wrote:

Andy78 wrote:So a handful of Marines armed with light weaponry are supposed to put down a huge crowd of frenzied psychotic raghead cocksuckers?l

Don't get all butthurt because you were only good enough for the Navy.