US Ambassador Among Dead in Benghazi

US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was one of four Americans killed when the US consulate in Benghazi was attacked Tuesday night, several Libyan security forces were killed as well.

The US embassy's site stated that Stevens "was the American representative to the Transitional National Council in Benghazi during the revolution".

Heavily armed Islamists, chanting Al Qaeda slogans as they went, drove off the Libyan security forces.

They proceeded to burn the compound, killing the ambassador, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and two as of yet unidentified consulate workers.

Video and pictures showed the bodies of the four, being carried around by their murderers.

Libyan and US security forces reportedly were driven off a second time by the militants, after a heavy fire fight.

Eventually US and Libyan security forces, joined by a local pro American militia, were able to retake the compound and reclaim the bodies of the dead.

A specially trained anti terror unit of Marines has now been shipped out to protect the US embassy in Tripoli.