September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012
Protesters against anti-Islam film produced in the United States have expanded in all of Lebanon and Sudan.
In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, one person was killed and 25 others were wounded after clashes between police and angry protesters against the film, “Innocence of Muslims.”
A crowd of 300 Islamists attacked and set fire to a KFC restaurant in Tripoli on Friday, an AFP correspondent said.
The attack on the U.S. fast-food chain’s outlet came as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon for a three-day visit, calling for Christian-Muslim coexistence and attacking religious extremism.
Meanwhile, Sudanese demonstrators on Friday stormed the German embassy in Khartoum and raised an Islamic flag above the mission during a protest against the film, a Reuters witness said.
A Reuters reporter saw protesters enter the embassy building in central Khartoum, smash windows and start a fire in front of the main gate.
Police had earlier tried to disperse some 5,000 protesters who had surrounded the German and nearby British embassy by firing volleys of teargas but no officers could be seen at the front gate after the storming.
The U.S. missions in all of Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia were targeted as the movie was produced in the United States by an Israeli-American and it was not immediately clear why European missions were being attacked in Sudan.
The Germany foreign minister meanwhile said that Sudan embassy staff were safe.
In Egypt, clashes between protesters and Egyptian Central Security Forces continued near the U.S. embassy in central Cairo on Friday as demonstrators insisted on voicing their rage over the film.
Source: Al Arabiya
