"Definitely, it was a deliberate attack," said al-Magariaf as the city braced for further protests over the crude video, the Innocence of Muslims.
The report comes on the heels of a global debate about free expression after a crude video that ridicules Islam was posted on YouTube.
Instead of demanding that their governments deliver needed jobs and housing, the protesters focused on a crude video promoted by hatemongering fanatics in the United States.
In Cairo, where the protests against a crude video denigrating Islam began on Tuesday, security forces expanded the fortifications around the American Embassy.
C.I.A. analysts drafted four sentences describing "demonstrations" in Benghazi that were "spontaneously inspired" by protests in Cairo against a crude video lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
Sarkeesian is targeted with grotesque hate speech on social media, has had public appearances disrupted with bomb threats and has been the subject of a crude video game about punching her in the face.
The crude video — which includes scenes mocking Prophet Muhammad as, in turns, a buffoon, a child molester and a greedy, bloodthirsty thug — was at first largely ignored when it was posted to YouTube in June.
In Artforum recently, the critic Amy Taubin, reviewing an exhibition of Andy Warhol films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, assailed the museum for showing "crude video transfers" that "lack the seductive visual qualities" of the original celluloid prints.
The most recent spate of green-on-blue deaths — four Americans on Sunday and two British on Saturday — coincided with a wave of anti-American riots around the world that followed the online distribution of a crude video depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a lecher and a fool.
No more crude video playback and broken lines.
The White House initially said the attack stemmed from anti-American protests over a crude video produced in the US that was deemed insulting to Islam.
