(ABC News) -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
"Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at
present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous -
not a premeditated - response to what had transpired in Cairo," Rice
told me this morning on "This Week."
"In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest
that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was
disseminated," Rice said, referring to protests in Egypt Tuesday
over a film
that depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud.
Protesters in Cairo
breached the walls of the U.S. American Embassy, tearing apart an
American flag.
"We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the
embassy to - or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of
challenge that was posed in Cairo," Rice said. "And then as that
unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual
clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons… And it then
evolved from there."
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