U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens killed with three Americans in attack on consulate in Benghazi, Libyan officials say
Officials say Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff

By http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Anthony%20Bartkewicz Anthony Bartkewicz 
September 12, 2012, 6:22 AM
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The U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed Tuesday night after demonstrators stormed the country’s U.S. consulate, firing rocket propelled grenades and setting fires, Libyan officials said Wednesday.
Ambassador Chris Stevens died Tuesday night in Benghazi alongside three embassy employees, according to The Associated Press.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Stevens died, but Libyan officials told Reuters his car was hit with rocket fire while he and the other three men were fleeing the embassy for a safer location.
But other sources told the Saudi news station Al Arabiya that Stevens died from asphyxiation.
The U.S. has only confirmed the death of one State Department officer from the protest in Benghazi. He was shot earlier in the day, and a second was wounded.
A parallel protest erupted Tuesday night in neighboring Cairo after clips from the anti-Muhammad film were posted to YouTube dubbed into Arab
Variously titled “Innocence of Muslims” or “Muhammad, Prophet of the Muslims,” the movie was allegedly produced by Coptic Christians in Egypt with help from U.S. Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones, and portrays Islam’s holiest prophet as a violent womanizer.
Furious demonstrators in Cairo climbed the walls of the U.S. embassy there and replaced the American flag with a pro-Islam banner.