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6:44 PM - 14 Sep 12 · Details
'Arab Fall': LIVE timeline of anti-US rage (PHOTOS)
Published: 13 September, 2012, 17:38
Edited: 15 September, 2012, 03:04
Edited: 15 September, 2012, 03:04
Bahrainis burn the US and Israeli flags during a demonstration against a film mocking Islam in the village of Diraz, west of Manama, on September 14, 2012. (AFP Photo /Mohammed Al Shaikh)
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Anti-US protests have engulfed much of the Arab world after clips from a controversial film satirizing the Prophet Muhammad appeared online. Embassies in Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Tunisia have been attacked by angry demonstrators.
23:07 GMT: US Vice President Joe Biden has called his Sudanese counterpart to express concern for the US embassy and other foreign diplomatic missions in Khartoum. "Vice President Biden reaffirmed the responsibility of the government of Sudan to protect diplomatic facilities and stressed the need for the Government of Sudan to ensure the protection of diplomats in Khartoum," the White House said in a statement.
22:35 GMT: The US is sending a team of Marines to Khartoum, Sudan to defend its facilities there. US officials say that similar teams are going to Yemen and Libya.
22:07 GMT: Google has rejected the White House’s request to pull the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video from its YouTube service. Earlier on Friday the Obama administration had requested that Google ‘review’ the video again to make sure it did not violate YouTube’s terms of service. Google will continue to restrict access to the film in India, Indonesia, Libya, and Egypt, all countries where the film is illegal.
21:50 GMT: Two US soldiers have been killed in a ‘complex’ attack at US army base Camp Bastion in Southern Afghanistan. The Taliban is suspected, but it is not yet known whether or not there is any direct relation to the world embassy protests.
21:31 GMT: The Egyptian state news agency reported 27 people were injured in Friday’s protests, also saying that at least 250 people have been injured in Egypt alone since the start of the protests on Wednesday.
21:26 GMT: CNN has reported that Tunisian soldiers are providing assistance to US marines defending the American Embassy in Tunis.
20:38 GMT: RT’s Paula Slier continues her live twitter updates from Cairo: “Protests show no sign of dying – 100s of youngsters here, some holding torch lights, surging towards the police and then running back”
20:31GMT: RT’s Paula Slier tweets from Cairo: “Young protestors seem well organised – all with surgical masks, screaming commands at each other; sense they're proud to be here”
19:42 GMT: RT's Paula Slier tweets from Cairo: "Feels like scene out of movie – heavy tear gas hanging over darkened streets; tyres burning; police sealed off ; youngsters throwing rock"
19:29 GMT: Street outside the US embassy in Cairo ablaze as clashes between rioters and police continue. Watch RT's live feed here.
19:25 GMT: An Egyptian protester has been killed in clashes with police near the US Embassy in Cairo, according to AP.
19:16 GMT: Security forces manage to expel the demonstrators from inside the US embassy compound in Tunis.
18:56 GMT: About 2,000 people protested in Amman, Jordan, burning US flags in front of the American embassy.
18:48 GMT: Demonstrators in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott have held a rally in front of the US embassy; some sources claim the protest turned violent.
18:01 GMT: Police in Cairo have erected a concrete wall around the US embassy and blocked nearby roads with barbed wire. Watch RT's live feed here.
17:56 GMT: Egypt's Bedouins broke through a fence of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) compound in the Sinai and set fire to an observation tower, in which two Colombians and and Egyptian were injured.
17:39 GMT: Tunisia's State TV says 3 dead, 28 injured in US Embassy protest.
17:33 GMT: White House asks YouTube to review whether anti-Muslim film violates terms of service.
17:01 GMT: Egypt Bedouin storm peacekeeper camp in The Sinai over anti-Islam film.
16:54 GMT: Three protesters killed and 28 injured as protests outside the US embassy in Tunis continue.
16:26 GMT: Protests outside the US embassy in Cairo have entered their third day. Watch RT's live feed here.
16:15 GMT: Angry demonstrators are protesting against the controversial 'Innocence of Muslims' film in at least 20 countries.
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16:15 GMT: Obama orders security review for all US diplomatic facilities worldwide.
15:52 GMT: Spokesperson for US Embassy in Sudan says all protesters 'expelled' from inside embassy compound in Khartoum.
15:49 GMT: Al Jazeera Arabic has confirmed the death of 3 protesters outside the US embassy in Khartoum, saying they were run over by Sudanese police vehicles.
15:47 GMT: According to ONA news agency, one person has been killed in the clashes outside the US embassy in Cairo.
15:34 GMT: Nigerian troops fire shots near a mosque in the city of Jos to disperse protesters.
15:32 GMT: Hundreds protest outside the US embassy in London.
