Timeline/Map: How the Islamic anti-film protests spread

19 Sep 2012, 8:35 am   -   Source: AFP
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A breakdown of events since the diffusion of a film considered offensive to Islam which prompted violent anti-US protests around the Muslim world.

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A breakdown of events since the diffusion of a film considered offensive to Islam which prompted violent anti-US protests around the Muslim world and led to the death of four Americans in Libya on Tuesday.
  
The film "Innocence of Muslims," directed a film-maker portraying himself as Israeli-American but US media say is a Coptic Christian, calls Islam a "cancer."
  


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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
  
- An armed mob protesting over the film attacks the US consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three more embassy officials, including two ex-marines.
  
- In Egypt some 3,000 mainly Salafist demonstrators tear down the Stars and Stripes at the Cairo US embassy and replace it with a black Islamic flag, similar to one adopted by militant groups.
  
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER  12
  
- The Benghazi killings are strongly condemned by Libya which apologises to the United States. The authorities in Tripoli blame followers of the deposed regime of late strongman Moamer Kadhafi and Al-Qaeda.
  
- US President Barack Obama condemns the "outrageous" attack but vows he will not break America's bond withibya. He orders stepped up security at US posts worldwide.
  
- Anti-US protests take place in several Arab countries, including Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan.
  
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
  
- In Yemen, where the US embassy is attacked, clashes between police and demonstrators kill four people. More than 200 are injured when protesters stone the US mission in Cairo. Demonstrations also take place in Iraq, Iran and the Gaza Strip.
  
- A "big advance" has been made in the probe into the attack on the US consulate, Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur says.
  
- Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi slams the film, but warns against the use of violence. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemns the film as "disgusting and reprehensible," stressing the US government had nothing to do with it.
  
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
  
- Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrate across the Islamic world to denounce the film.
  
- Two people are killed and 29 wounded in clashes at the US embassy in Tunis, with two of the injured reported in a critical condition.
  
- In Khartoum, where two demonstrators are killed, guards at the US embassy fire warning shots as a security perimeter is breached by dozens of protesters, after thousands earlier stormed the British embassy and torched the German mission.
  
- In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, one demonstrator is killed and 25 people hurt in clashes with police after Islamists set fire to a KFC restaurant.
  
- A group of Bedouin storms an international peacekeepers' camp in Egypt's Sinai to protest against the film, sparking clashes that injure three people.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
  
- Taliban militants storm Camp Bastion, a heavily fortified airfield in Afghanistan's Helmand province where Britain's Prince Harry is deployed, killing two US Marines.
  
- Al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch says the deadly attack on US diplomats in Libya was in "revenge" for the killing of its number two, Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a drone strike in June.
  
- The United States orders non-essential diplomatic staff to leave Sudan and Tunisia.
  
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
  
- Some 1,500 students pour into the streets of Kabul to protest against the film.
  
- The makers of the film were influenced by a southern California-based Coptic preacher, Zakaria Botros Henein, who made a business out of insults to the Prophet Mohammed, The Los Angeles Times reports.
  
- Libya announces the arrest of 50 suspects over the Benghazi killing.
  
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
  
- Two protesters against the film die in Pakistan, while demonstrations also take place in Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
  
- Tens of thousands take to the streets of southern Beirut, in the rare presence of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
  
- Hundreds of Palestinians stage a peaceful protest in Ramallah.
  
- Hundreds of Yemeni students demonstrate, calling for the expulsion of the American ambassador and the boycott of American products.
  
- Protesters clash with Indonesian police outside the US embassy in Jakarta.
  
- The US says it will close its embassy in Bangkok in response to a planned protest by several hundred people.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
  
- A suicide car bombing in Kabul kills 12 people, nine of them foreigners, in the deadliest single attack claimed in vengeance for the film to date. Afghan insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami claims responsibility, saying it wants to avenge the film.
  
- Demonstrations take place in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, Bangkok and east Jerusalem.
  
So far 31 have been killed in the unrest since the attack on the US consulate a week ago.

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Where's Sydney?

John - from Sydney, 8 months ago

Your list needs updating... With Sydney!!!

One Man

Sabine - from Penrith, 8 months ago

One Man, one movie ........ uprore, unrest and killings around the world! What a sad world we live in.

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