Embassy protests spread to other “Arab Spring” nations
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 9:27am
So how’s that Arab Spring working out for us? After riots “spontaneously” erupted on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 in Libya and Egypt, they spread overnight to two more Arab nations with recent populist uprisings. In Yemen, where we’re trying to fight a particularly virulent branch of al-Qaeda, protestors surrounded the US embassy chanting “Death to America!” Just as in Egypt, they breached the perimeter and burned the US flag, replacing it with an Islamist banner:
