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By Ed Payne and Saad Abedine , CNN
September 18, 2012 -- Updated 1138 GMT (1938 HKT)
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"We encourage all Muslims to continue to demonstrate and escalate their
protests ... and to kill their (American) ambassadors and representatives or to
expel them to cleanse our land from their wickedness," said the statement from
al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The group called last week's killing of Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya,
"the best gift you (can) give to his arrogant and unjust administration."
Elsewhere Tuesday, a Taliban-allied insurgent group claimed responsibility for
a suicide attack that killed 12 people, including eight South Africans, in
Afghanistan. The attack was a response to the film, the group said.
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, a group allied with the Taliban, said a 22-year-old
woman drove a car packed with 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of explosives into a
van on a road leading to Kabul International Airport.
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Eleven others were wounded in the attack, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
The escalating tensions have spilled into NATO military operations in the
central Asia nation, prompting the alliance to order its troops to adjust joint
operations with Afghan security forces to minimize attacks on them by their
local allies.
"Recent events outside of and inside Afghanistan related to the 'Innocence of
Muslims' video plus the conduct of recent insider attacks have given cause for
ISAF troops to exercise increased vigilance and carefully review all activities
and interactions with the local population," said a spokeswoman for NATO's
International Security Assistance Force. The operations with Afghan forces
could increase as the "threat level" goes down, she said.
Here are the latest key developments:
Protests waning?
Tuesday began more quietly in parts of the world that had been rocked by
protests in recent days.
A general strike flared in Indian-administered Kashmir, shutting down
businesses, public transport and most government operations, with reports of
sporadic violence.
A coalition of religious parties and separatist groups called the strike as a
protest against the film.
The scene was much different a day earlier when demonstrators took to the
streets in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq.
Answering a call from the leader of Hezbollah -- deemed a terrorist
organization by the United States -- thousands packed the streets of Beirut's
southern suburbs Monday and chanted, "Death to America!"
Monday's protests weren't on the scale of those last week, nor did they provoke
the same level of international crisis by endangering U.S. diplomatic missions.
Still, the fact that the demonstrations are continuing -- and that they have
occurred in more than 20 countries -- suggests the anti-American furor tied to
the inflammatory film isn't going away.
Washington has made it clear that it did not sanction the low-budget,
amateurish 14-minute movie trailer produced privately in the United States and
posted on YouTube. The clip mocks the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, child
molester and killer.
Islam forbids any depictions of Mohammed, and blasphemy is taboo among many in
the Muslim world.
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The film clip was relatively obscure until September 11 when rioters breached
the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and upset protesters attacked the U.S. Consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, killing Stevens and three other Americans.
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A wave of protests since then has rippled from Morocco to Malaysia, spurring
U.S. officials to increase security at diplomatic missions and demand other
governments to take action.
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Libya has taken steps to arrest those responsible for last week's deadly
consulate attack, bringing in dozens for questioning over the weekend, Libyan
officials said. The exact number of arrests was unclear. One Libyan official
said those arrested included suspects from Mali and Algeria as well as al Qaeda
sympathizers.
Wanes al-Sharif, a deputy interior minister whose jurisdiction included eastern
Libya, was fired one day after the Benghazi attack, according to documents
obtained Monday by CNN. No reason was given for al-Shari's dismissal. Notably,
he told reporters after the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi assault that he'd
ordered a security force mobilized during the unrest "to leave the area because
of the large number of protesters."
The FBI also is investigating the Libya attack but has yet to enter the country
because of volatility there. In the meantime, FBI agents are interviewing
witnesses outside Libya, federal law enforcement officials said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters over the weekend that the
worst of the violence appeared over, but the United States is maintaining tight
security anyway.
Nonessential personnel have been ordered to leave American diplomatic missions
in Sudan, Tunisia and Libya. In Yemen, consular services were suspended until
the end of the month. And on Monday, the U.S. State Department -- citing
"current safety and security concerns" -- urged U.S. citizens to avoid travel
to Lebanon.
But the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, the scene of five consecutive days of protests,
returned to full staffing Sunday, the State Department said.
Filmmaker in hiding, video blocked
Federal officials say the man behind the film that sparked the worldwide
protests is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a convicted felon with a history of using
aliases to hide his actions. Nakoula is on probation for bank fraud.
Nakoula and his family have left their Cerritos, California, home for an
unidentified location, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
Reports that Nakoula is a Coptic Christian have raised concern about a possible
backlash against the minority religious group in Egypt, where tensions between
Copts and Muslims have risen recently. He initially told The Wall Street
Journal that he was an Israeli.
Nakoula denied he made the film, according to Bishop Serapion, the head of the
Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles, citing a phone conversation with him
last week. At a news conference Monday, the Coptic leader condemned violence by
protesters which, he said, "only serves to continue the hate."
"There should have been no bloodshed," echoed local Muslim leader Maher
Hathout, chairman of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, at the
same Los Angeles event. "As a matter of fact, there should have been no
reaction to such an insignificant production."
Washington's denouncement has no effect
Despite U.S. government officials' firm condemnation, some in the Muslim world
-- especially those raised in regimes in which the government must authorize
any film -- cannot accept that a movie such as "Innocence of Muslims" can be
made without Washington's blessing, Council of Foreign Relations scholar Ed
Husain said.
"They're projecting ... their experience, their understanding (that) somehow
the U.S. government is responsible for the actions of a right-wing fellow,"
said Husain, a senior fellow at the New York think thank.
Meanwhile, efforts to block the film are spreading.
A day after the protests broke out, YouTube announced it was restricting access
to the video, and since then, Google India has blocked access. (Google is
YouTube's parent company.) Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh also have
ordered an indefinite block of YouTube to prevent people there from watching
the clip.
In Russia, the prosecutor general's office said Monday it will seek to block
the movie, which it has labeled extremist, and Communications Minister Nikolai
Nikiforov warned the country may block YouTube over the video, the state-run
RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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CNN's Mukhtar Ahmad, Jomana Karadsheh, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Miguel Marquez, Anna
Coren, Nasir Habib, Reza Sayah, Jessica King, Chelsea J. Carter, Tom Watkins,
Greg Botelho and journalist Farid Ahmed contributed to this report.
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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