An armed mob protesting a film deemed offensive to Islam attacked the US consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday killing the ambassador to Libya, according to Al Arabiya sources. The attack in Libya happened hours after angry Islamists stormed Washington's embassy in Cairo. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a statement late on Tuesday, confirmed the death of the US diplomat, who was not yet identified, and condemned the attack on the Benghazi consulate, after a day of mayhem in two countries that raised fresh questions about Washington's relations with the Arab world. Libya's deputy interior minister Wanis al-Sharif told AFP: "One American official was killed and another injured in the hand. The other staff members were evacuated and are safe and sound." Sharif, who is in charge of Libya's eastern region, said: "Demonstrators attacked the US consulate in Benghazi. They fired shots in the air before entering the building." The violent protest was strongly condemned by Libya's General National Congress, which in a statement expressed "outrage at the unfortunate attack against the American consulate in Benghazi," according to AFP. Earlier Tuesday, Egypt's prestigious al-Azhar mosque and seat of Sunni learning condemned a symbolic "trial" of the Prophet organized by a US group including Terry Jones, a Christian pastor who triggered riots in Afghanistan in 2010 by threatening to burn the Quran. But it was not immediately clear whether it was the event sponsored by Jones, or ...