The wave of anti-American protests in Muslim countries. Obama is struggling.

Kabul : Afghanistan | Sep 13, 2012 at 9:11 AM PDT

By lethibichlan

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J. Christopher Stevens died when a mob attacked the US embassy in Libya

U.S. President Barack Obama immediately telephone conversation with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on how to stop the wave of anti-Americanism spread to Afghanistan after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Morning 13/9, clashes between protesters and police broke out in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. The police had to use tear gas to disperse protesters. In the second day rally, protesters chanted anti-American slogans and repeating slogans supporting Islam.

They demanded an apology from the U.S. government, and threatened to hold a protest sit here until 14/9 if this requirement is not met.

The consequences are serious attacks on the U.S. consulate in the city of Benghazi that the U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats were killed.

Tunisia's capital, Tunis, police had to use tear gas to disperse around 300 protesters outside the U.S. embassy to condemn the film. Similar demonstrations took place in front the U.S. embassy in Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen and other Muslim countries.

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Egyptian demonstrators tear down the US flag at the embassy in Cairo on September 11

lethibichlan is based in Vũng Tàu, Đông Nam Bộ, Vietnam, and is a Reporter for Allvoices.

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