9/16/12, "Film protests: Hezbollah urges new Lebanon protests," BBC (Sheikh waited for the Pope to leave town before calling for protests)
"The leader of the Shia Muslim militant group, Hezbollah, has called for fresh protests in Lebanon on Monday over a film deemed offensive to Muslims.
The world needed to know Muslims "would not be silent in the face of this insult", Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said.
Protests at many US diplomatic missions have been continuing over the film, which was made in the US.
One person was reportedly killed in clashes between protesters and police in Pakistan on Sunday.
In a speech broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station, Sheikh Nasrallah called for demonstrations on several days over the coming week.
The first is scheduled to take place on Monday afternoon in a southern suburb of Beirut which is a Hezbollah stronghold.
He said he had waited for the Pope to complete his three-day official visit to Lebanon before speaking out on the matter.
"Those who should be held accountable, punished, prosecuted and boycotted are those directly responsible for this film and those who stand behind them and those who support and protect them, primarily the United States of America," Sheikh Nasrallah said...
The clashes in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, occurred when protesters attempted to break through a barricade to the US consulate.
Police used teargas and fired warning shots into the air in response to stone-throwing protesters.
A spokesman for the group that organised the rally told the Associated Press that a protester had been killed in the clashes. Several other people were injured....
Mohamed Magarief told CBS News he had "no doubt" the attack was pre-planned, and that some of those who took part were from outside Libya.
US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US consulate staff were killed in the attack.
However, US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told ABC that the the US's "current best assessment" was that "this began as a spontaneous, not a pre-meditated, response" to earlier protests over the film in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
The violence in Benghazi was in turn followed by a string of attacks on US consulates, embassies and business interests across the Middle East and north Africa. British, Swiss, German and Dutch properties have also been targeted.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has called for fresh attacks against Western embassies, describing the recent unrest as "a great event", and urging protesters to unite to "expel the embassies of America from the lands of the Muslims"."
"Clashes erupted between police and protesters around the US consulate in Karachi," AFP via BBC
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