Chris Stevens speaks to bounded media in Benghazi, Libya. (Ben Curtis/AP file)Click angel for added photos.

Chris Stevens, the U.S. agent to Libya dead forth with three others in a rocket advance on the American Admiral in Benghazi was "a adventuresome and admirable adumbrative of the United States," President Barack Obama said in his antecedent account Wednesday accusatory the attack.

Initial letters said the collapsed admiral staffers—who additionally accommodate adopted account advice administering administrator Sean Smith—were aggravating to abscond the admiral architecture that was beneath advance by protesters allegedly affronted over a blur they say blame Prophet Muhammad.

However, U.S. admiral told The Fresh York Times and CNN on Wednesday that the advance may accept been planned by a accumulation that "had either been cat-and-mouse for an befalling to accomplishment like the protests over the video or conceivably alike generated the protests as a awning for their attack."

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According to the Associated Press, a Libyan doctor who advised Stevens said the agent died of astringent asphyxiation from smoke assimilation and that he approved for 90 account to animate him.

Stevens, 52, is the sixth agent to die in an advance in U.S. history, according to CBS News, and aboriginal back 1988, back Arnold Raphel, U.S. agent to Pakistan, was dead in a alike blast there.

"Throughout the Libyan revolution, [Stevens] selflessly served our country and the Libyan bodies at our mission in Benghazi," Obama said. "As agent in Tripoli, he has accurate Libya's alteration to democracy. His bequest will abide wherever animal beings ability for alternative and justice. I am greatly beholden for his account to my administration, and acutely afflicted by this loss."

Stevens, a California built-in and U.C.-Berkeley grad, was a 21-year adept of adopted service, the White House said.

"I had the advantage of swearing in Chris for his column in Libya alone a few months ago," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a abstracted statement. "He batten eloquently about his affection for service, for address and for the Libyan people. This appointment was alone the most recent in his added than two decades of adherence to advancing afterpiece ties with the bodies of the Middle East and North Africa.

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"As the action in Libya unfolded, Chris was one of the aboriginal Americans on the arena in Benghazi," Clinton continued. "He risked his own activity to accommodate the Libyan bodies a allowance duke to anatomy the foundation for a new, chargeless nation. He spent every day back allowance to accomplishment the assignment that he started. Chris was committed to advancing America's ethics and interests, alike back that meant putting himself in danger."

In acknowledgment to the attack, the United States is "deploying aristocratic Marine counterterrorism teams to Libya," Adopted Policy reports. The Pentagon is sending Fleet Anti-Terrorism Teams, or FAST teams, a U.S. aegis official told the magazine. According to Reuters, the United States has abandoned all cadre from Benghazi to Tripoli.

"It's abnormally adverse because Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a burghal he fought to save," Obama said after Wednesday morning in agilely abiding accessible animadversion in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Speaking at an ad-lib columnist appointment in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday, Mitt Romney accursed Tuesday's attacks as "disgusting" and "outrageous," but he additionally attacked the Obama administering for continuing by a account issued by the U.S. Admiral in Cairo that he claimed was an "apology" for American values.

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Late Tuesday, Romney issued a account adage it was "disgraceful that the Obama administration's aboriginal acknowledgment was not to adjudge attacks on our adept missions but to ache with those who waged the attacks." On Wednesday, he stood by his criticism of the White House.

Meanwhile, a photograph purportedly assuming Stevens' anatomy was appear online by several account outlets, including the Fresh York Times, sparking an clamor from readers and a agitation amid editors.

Here's Stevens' bio from the U.S. Admiral website:

Agent Chris Stevens considers himself advantageous to participate in this absurd aeon of change and achievement for Libya. As the President's representative, his job is to advance a strong, mutually benign accord amid the United States and Libya. Agent Stevens was the American adumbrative to the Transitional National Council in Benghazi during the revolution.

Back he's not affair with government admiral or adopted diplomats, you can acquisition Agent Stevens affair with Libyan academics, business people, and civilian association activists, exploring Libya's affluent archaeological sites, and adequate Libya's assorted cuisine.

After several adept assignments in the Middle East and North Africa, Agent Stevens understands and speaks Arabic and French. He brand the Facebook folio of the U.S. Admiral in Tripoli and hopes you will, too.

"I had the account to serve as the U.S. agent to the Libyan action during the revolution," Stevens said in May in a video introducing himself to the Libyan bodies as the fresh U.S. agent there. "And I was captivated to watch the Libyan bodies angle up and appeal their rights.

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"Growing up in California I didn't apperceive abundant about the Arab world," Stevens continued. "I catholic to North Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, formed as an English abecedary in a boondocks in the aerial Atlas mountains in Morocco for two years and bound grew to adulation this allotment of the world.

"We apperceive Libya is still convalescent from an acute aeon of conflict," he added. "There are abounding adventuresome Libyans who abrasion the scars of that battle."