THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: An angry mob forced its way into the American embassy in Yemen as violence linked a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammed spread turmoil across the Muslim world.
Still reeling from the killing of its ambassador to Libya and three of his colleagues, Washington scrambled to protect its diplomats elsewhere as protesters laid siege to US diplomatic missions in six Muslim states.
Four people were reportedly killed and dozens injured in clashes between police and Yemeni security forces in Sana’a, raising fears of a repeat of the maelstrom unleashed by a Danish newspaper’s publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed during which scores of people were killed.
More than 200 people were injured as Egyptian police fended off attempts by stone-throwing protesters to breach the perimeter of the US embassy in Cairo, as they had done the previous day when the American flag above the building was set on fire.
Protests took place outside US missions in Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia and Bangladesh. About 500 Iranians chanting “death to America” tried to converge on the Swiss embassy, which handles US interests in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, while demonstrators burnt American flags on the streets of Baghdad. » | Adrian Blomfield, Adam Baron in Sana'a | Thursday, September 13, 2012
The weaker Western governments will be perceived to be, the more this nonsense will go on. – © Mark
