Courtesy of the Daily Mail: Hundreds of protesters in Libya have launched an attack on the jihadist militia responsible for killing the U.S. ambassador last week.
The pro-American backlash on Friday night saw the Ansar al-Sharia Brigade driven out of its base in the city of Benghazi, where Chris Stevens and three other U.S. officials were murdered in an attack on the local consulate.
The unprecedented movement suggests that ordinary Libyans are rising up against Al Qaeda fighters who seek to hijack the democratic reforms of the Arab Spring.
Ansar al-Sharia militants initially fired in the air to disperse the crowd, but eventually abandoned the site with their weapons and vehicles after it was overrun by waves of protesters shouting 'No to militias.'
'I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform,' said Omar Mohammed, a college student who took part in the takeover of the site.
No deaths were reported in the incident, which came after tens of thousands marched in Benghazi against armed militias. One vehicle was also burned at the compound.
Wow! So perhaps it is time for Americans to realize that not ALL Muslims are radical Jihadists determined to spread violent and disharmony among the people o the Middle East.
Gee didn't Sean Hannity and Latino Sarah Palin rip into our President just a few days ago for trusting these people to make the right choice on their own instead of having a prefabricated, by America of course, government foisted upon them? Yeah, I kind of think we did.
Well I wonder what their response to this might be? Oh never mind, if they can't somehow fault President Obama in some way they will simply ignore it.
P.S. By the way these protests have openly spread since this incident and protestors have now seized a raft of other paramilitary bases as well.
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