Obama condemns killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya
By the CNN Wire Staff
September 12, 2012
1243 GMT
(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday strongly condemned the killing of the United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, in a rocket attack on the U.S. Consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday.
He called the attack "outrageous," and confirmed that four Americans, including Stevens, were killed.
"Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States," Obama said.
Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in an attack since 1979.
Libya's Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib apologized "to the American people and the government, and also to the rest of the world" for the "cowardly criminal act."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton identified a second victim as Sean Smith, a Foreign Service information management officer who was a ten-year veteran of the State Department, a husband and a father of two.
The two other victims have not been named.
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