The attack on the embassy seems to have been a military attack by Salafist extremists, who have been bombing and destroying Sufi mosques, and attacked the Tunisian embassy this week, as well. Quaddafi(or however you spell his name) manage to keep them in check, but the democratically elected government seems powerless to restrain them.

The Salafists are the fastest growing segment of Islam, and are financially encouraged by our good and constant friends, the Sauds.

The "repressive and tyrannical regimes" that we were so eager to see fall focussed a lot of that repression and tyranny on these folks. Kind of reminds me of how glad we were to see that repressive, tyrannical Shah of Iran fall...