Protest in Gaza over anti-Muslim movie

Palestinian men burn the U.S. flag during a demonstration against a film deemed offensive to Islam, Sept. 12, 2012 in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City. / Getty

(CBS News) Dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip burned American flags Wednesday and chanted "Death to America," protesting an American film that mocks the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

The protest Wednesday in Gaza City was sponsored by supporters of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group aligned with the ruling Hamas movement, and comes a day after a protest against the same film turned into a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Well-armed protesters overpowered the security staff at the consulate and stormed the compound, leaving four Americans dead, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.

There was also a small protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, but nothing like the angry mob which breached the building's perimeter walls on Tuesday, hours before the Benghazi attack. There were no injuries reported in Cairo on Tuesday, and the security presence around the embassy on Wednesday outnumbered the protesters, according to CBS News' Alex Ortiz.

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CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that U.S. officials were monitoring possible protests in Algeria and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East following the fatal attack in Benghazi.

President Obama ordered increased security measures at U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world following the deadly attack in Benghazi.

In Gaza City, some protesters carried swords, axes and black flags. They also used knives to cut posters of Morris Sadek, the Egyptian-born Christian who has promoted the film, which was produced by an American-Israeli and also promoted by American pastor Terry Jones.

They chanted, "Shame on everyone who insults the prophet."

Hamas, the larger militant group that governs Gaza, also condemned the film.

Its religious affairs minister, Ismail Radwan, called it an "insult to the millions of Muslims all over the world."

The American embassies in Algeria and Tunisia, both of which border Libya, warned Wednesday of possible protests.

In an emergency message, the U.S. Embassy in Tunis warned Americans to avoid crowded places, saying that even gatherings "intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and possibly escalate into violence."

The embassy in Algiers had similar advice, saying unspecified groups were using online social networks to organize demonstrations "to protest a range of issues" there Wednesday. The statement out of Tunis cited "media reports" indicating protests were planned, but said the embassy remained open.

In Afghanistan, meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai tried to preempt unrest by blaming a "small radical minority" in the U.S. for the movie which ridiculed the prophet Muhammad.

The Taliban issued a statement Wednesday calling on its fighters to "take revenge" for the film by targeting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

[euge005]

Interesting, wonder where they got American flags? It is not like we have many fans in Gaza. Maybe the folks filming the protest provided them? But really, it is time for the protestors to grow up. Freedom is what everyone wants and that requires tolerence for ideas you do not agree with. It cannot be an excuse for murder, arson and riot. Present youyr own ideas and show they are superior. It is the best and most civilized way to push back & doing it with non-violence will gain the protestor respect.

[JohnQPublic12]

CBS/AP) U.S. officials believe that an attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya resulting in the death of an American ambassador may have been planned and not solely the actions of a spontaneous mob demonstrating against an online video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Gee - I guess the original story was a lie by CBS trying to blame Americans?

[thereisnogodbutoneGod]

First provocation, instigation, propagation, incitement, termoil n spread the terrorism by the western n USAss war criminals state sponsor terrorist thugs regimes in its gang by invasion, destruction, killing of over a million of Muslims in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, LIBYA, YEMEN n else, insulting their holy book QURAN, let the zionist bastard making movie, pass the certificate n than blame on Muslims for their anger. Lets hunt all the war criminals state sponsor terrorist thugs who spread the terrorist activities by cowardly machines n Muslim lands n those who insult Muslims, Islam n its Prophets. www.ifamericansonlyknew.org

[JohnQPublic12]

Typical media - blames the Jews. Remember the Holocaust. This was a planned 9/11 attack. Shocking that the media would make Jews the scapegoat.

[cbs_tom]

by ZionistCensorship September 12, 2012 12:50 PM EDT
"Burning American flags is protected speech in the USA, but not in Gaza???"
Telling the truth about an idiology is wrong in Gaza, but not the USA???
"by newster90210 September 12, 2012 1:20 PM EDT
We already did that, we BOMBED them, destroyed buildings, and civilians"
The US bombed Gaza??? When did this take place? any footage, bi-lines, witnesses? We give the ones burning our flag and calling us infidals large sums of money each year...

[cbs_tom]

by ZionistCensorship September 12, 2012 3:09 PM EDT
"U.S. built planes, dropping U.S. bombs, samey same, G.I."

Well they have acquired weaponry from other nations too, so I guess their involved. They have tanks and the fuel probably came from the Saudi's. So I guess the Saudi's are complicit and I guess we can continue on and on and on...

[lfitts2]

Hey ZionistCensorship...these are your buds, your friends...ah the best that Islam has to offer...now tell us why this too is Israels fault...Netanyahu is an idiot, there needs to be peace, BUT it is VERY hard to make peace with groups like this...if all they care about is killing you it is hard to come to a peace agreement...so they next time you offer up your anti-Israel drivel...remember what the Iranians did in 1979 to the US embassy and these acts, then tell me why it is Israels fault...you'll excuse me while I laugh when you do so...no one else believes you either!!!

[rainbowroosie]

Islam is a religion of peace.

[john92021]

with all our fancy facial recognition systems and other secret computer stuff I hope all these demonstrators end up on the no fly list and off the immigration list forever.

[jnostromo]

Better yet track them down and eliminate them...the world is infected by a plague of vermin..time to eradicate and thin the herd.

[LTroush]

Since they are burning American flag's(as they always do) can we go over to there country and start killing them and burning there buildings, they are offending me. they are always so one sided.

[jnostromo]

You don't want to become subhuman like them do you.....They are diseased rats and should be treated as such. No aid, no food,no rebuilding, no american companies creating jobs for them,close our universities to them, close our borders to them no visas to this country...declare them non existent to this country and let them kill each other..if they try to attack here, respond with brutal destructive force

[cbs_tom]

by ZionistCensorship September 12, 2012 12:50 PM EDT
"Do you remember the protests in the USA, and Tel Aviv, over the Mel Gibson movie"???

And how many were killed? Protesting is good. Murder, not good.

[LTroush]

Since they are burning American flag's(as they always do) can we go over to there country and start killing them and burning there buildings, they are offending me. they are always so one sided.

[gbreadmann]

Most people in America have no clue the movie even existed. All it takes is a rumor of Islamic insults for people to start killing and burning American flags.

All these pickups driving around America say "made in the USA" with a big US flag plastered on the back hatch; but the gasoline is made in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, violence-plagued Nigeria, and worst of all, places in the middle east.

[steven_rodgers]

yea,..it's their fault....the guys driving pick ups and showing national pride......wow........