"In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated."

                                   -Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

"What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi, in many other parts of the region...was a result -- a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting."

                                                     -Susan Rice.

"But there is no question what we have seen in the past with things like Satanic Verses and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad

there have been such things that have sparked outrage and anger and this has been the proximate cause."

                                                     -Susan Rice.