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Stars and Stripes torn down
The attack in Libya came after a Stars and Stripes which had been flying at half-mast to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks was torn to shreds by protesters who scaled the wall of the US embassy in Cairo.
Reports suggest both incidents were sparked by anger over a film which was produced by expatriate members of Egypt's Christian minority resident in the United States.Reports said the Cairo protesters, numbering nearly 3,000 were mostly hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement.
A dozen men scaled the embassy walls and one of them tore down the US flag, replacing it with a black one inscribed with the Muslim profession of faith: "There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God."
Demonstrators also daubed part of that slogan - "There is no God but God" - on the walls of the embassy compound.
"What I heard was that it was replaced with a ... plain, black flag, But I may not be correct in that," Ms Nuland said, adding that there had not been any reports of injuries.
"It sounds like, and I don't have full details, that this came up pretty quickly, [a] relatively modest group of people, but caught both us and the Egyptian security outside the embassy by surprise."
Egypt protesters tear down US embassy
flag on 9/11
AFPUpdated September 12, 2012, 4:01 am
CAIRO (AFP) - Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators tore down the Stars and Stripes at the US embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and replaced it with an Islamic flag on the annniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, an AFP photographer reported.
Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement, gathered at the embassy in protest over a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed which was produced by expatriate members of Egypt's Christian minority resident in the United States.
A dozen men scaled the embassy walls and one of them tore down the US flag, replacing it with a black one inscribed with the Muslim profession of faith: "There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God."
Demonstrators also daubed part of that slogan -- "There is no God but God" -- on the walls of the embassy compound.
Asked whether the flag the protesters hoisted on the anniversary of the killing of nearly 3,000 people in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania was that of the Al-Qaeda movement culprits, a US State Department official said she thought not.
"We had some people breach the wall, take the flag down and replace it. What I heard was that it was replaced with a plain black flag. But I maybe not be correct in that," she said, when asked whether it was the emblem of the jihadists that had been raised.
