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Anti-US protests in Middle East
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - The suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has issued a threat in a YouTube video over a United States (US)-made anti-Islam film that has sparked widespread protests in the Muslim world.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - State Department officials on Monday rejected calls for United States (US) ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Susan Rice to resign, amid charges she misled Americans over the assault on a US mission in Libya.
JAKARTA (AFP) - Thousands of Indonesians on Sunday chanted anti-American slogans outside the United States (US) embassy in Jakarta, in the latest protest against a film that sparked demonstrations in at least 20 countries.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States (US) intelligence community said on Friday that a deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a planned attack linked to Al-Qaeda but stressed that "many unanswered questions" remained.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Muslims across the Middle East outraged by an anti-Islam film made in America wanted swift punishment for the man behind the movie, and now Mark Basseley Youssef is behind bars. But he's jailed for lying about his identity, not because of the video's content.
NEW YORK (AFP) - The United States (US) is withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Tripoli, some two weeks after cutting personnel to emergency levels following an attack on its consulate, officials said on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A United States (US) judge ordered the alleged film-maker behind a video that sparked protests across Muslim countries detained without bond on Thursday, saying there was a risk he would try to flee.
CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian Copt on trial for blasphemy on Wednesday denied the accusations, saying he was asked about his faith during questioning, in a case that has raised concerns of freedom of expression.
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh police said on Wednesday they had arrested a university professor on suspicion that he planned to lead an attack on the United States (US) embassy during a protest against a film which ridicules Islam.

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A mob, angered over a movie mocking Islam stormed, the United States (US) consulate in Benghazi, killing Washington's envoy to Libya and three other Americans

The attack on Sept 11, 2012, on the 11th anniversary of the terrorist strike in the US, was presumed to have been a spontaneous act triggered by outrage over a movie called Innocence of Muslims that mocked Islam's Prophet Muhammad that was produced in the US and excerpted on YouTube.

More people have died as anti-US protests spread across the Middle East and North Africa, targeting US embassies.