Americans shocked by attacks on diplomats

The attacks on US diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, and Cairo, Egypt, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks have shocked Americans.

While initial reports linked the attacks - which killed US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US diplomatic personnel - to the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims, many Americans are wondering why people in the countries they helped during the "Arab Spring" have turned against them.

Ed Husain, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, believes al-Qaida sympathizers and al-Qaida foot soldiers are behind the attacks.