Al-Qaida calls for more attacks on embassies

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The photo below is the one that appears in the AP article. I also reproduced the rather lengthy caption of the photo.

Looks posed to me. Besides, if there is a storming of the German embassy in Khartoum going on at the same time, why are you photographing a march in Khartoum instead of photographing the storming of the embassy in Khartoum, or at least its aftermath?

CAIRO (AP) —

Sudanese protesters march in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, against a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)



Al-Qaida's most active branch in the Middle East called for more attacks on U.S. embassies Saturday to "set the fires blazing," seeking to co-opt outrage over an anti-Muslim film even as the wave of protests that swept 20 countries this week eased.

Senior Muslim religious authorities issued their strongest pleas yet against resorting to violence, trying to defuse Muslim anger over the film a day after new attacks on U.S. and Western embassies that left at least eight protesters dead.

The top cleric in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia denounced the film but said it can't really hurt Islam, a contrast to protesters' frequently heard cries that the movie amounts to a humiliating attack that requires retaliation. He urged Muslims not to be "dragged by anger" into violence. The head of the Sunni Muslim world's pre-eminent religious institution, Egypt's Al-Azhar, backed peaceful protests but said Muslims should counter the movie by reviving Islam's moderate ideas.

In the Egyptian capital Cairo, where the first protests against the movie that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad erupted, police finally succeeded in clearing away protesters who had been clashing with security forces for days near the U.S. Embassy. Police arrested 220 people and a concrete wall was erected across the road leading to the embassy.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/sudan-2-protesters-killed-outside-us-embassy

I'm not sure if Al Qaida is trying to "co-opt" the demonstators of if Al Qaida got the demonstators going in the first instance. Don't know if we'll ever know, either.

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1. The people don't look angry enough to be protesting

The body language indicates something different to me, more like a religious procession. Be interesting to know the significance of the cane being carried.

Could be the people involved just want the US embassy gone to prevent further bloodshed, rather than being in support of Al Qaida.

Like you, I doubt that we will ever know.

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2. Yep. Which news photog snaps this and not an embassy storming in the same city?