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In September 2012, Chris Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans were killed when a mob armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades overwhelmed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and set fire to it. Ambassador Stevens died in the attack, becoming the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979. Shortly afterwards, the Lebanese news site Tayyar.org reproduced an Agence France Presse (AFP) account of the attack and included a paragraph stating that Ambassador Stevens had been raped and killed by gunmen and his body has been dragged through the streets: An image was also circulated which was purportedly taken from a television news report and is said to show Ambassador Stevens in the hands of his killers: Claims circulated online that picked up on this account and presented it as fact: AFP said in response to the Tayyar report that: U.S. news accounts reported that Ambassador Stevens was not raped and killed by members of that mob, as claimed above: he was alive when brought to a hospital, he bore no external injuries, and he died of smoke inhalation from the fire started in the attack on the consulate: CNN obtained a video which, contrary to accounts that Ambassador Stevens was murdered by the U.S. consulate's attackers, is said to show a group of Libyans attempting to rescue a still-alive Stevens from the burned-out consulate building: The circumstances of Ambassador Stevens' death are still under investigation: As of this writing, the U.S. government has still not released any post-mortem information documenting the nature of Ambassador Stevens' death.
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