US sending Marines to Sudan to bolster embassy security
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Sudanese demonstrators attack the U.S. embassy in Khartoum September 14, 2012. Three people were killed on Friday during a demonstration against an anti-Islam film outside the U.S. embassy in Sudan, Sudan's state radio said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
(REUTERS) - The United States (US) is sending a platoon of Marines to Sudan to bolster security at the US embassy in Khartoum, an American official told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Pentagon, responding to a wave of anti-American protests sweeping the Middle East, has taken similar steps in Libya and Yemen as fury over a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the region.
