Amid spreading protests, U.S. diplomats in Beirut burn classified documents

18.09.2012                      02.Tischrei. 5773                      Rosch Haschanah 2

Beirut:

Amid spreading protests, U.S. diplomats in Beirut burn classified documents

U.S. State Department confirms decision to destroy classified materials, despite no imminent threat to embassy; Libya sacks Benghazi security chiefs in wake of attack on U.S. consulate that killed 4 Americans last week.

Diplomats at the U.S.­ Embassy in Beirut have begun destroying classified material as a security precaution, amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa….