U.S. outrage as Serb protesters burn embassy | Reuters

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serb protesters ransacked and set fire to the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, venting anger at U.S. support for Kosovo's declaration of independence.

A charred body was found in the U.S. embassy, but all U.S. personnel had been accounted for, a U.S. official said.

Riot police eventually dispersed the rampaging protesters but Washington was furious over the lack of security for its embassy in the Serbian capital.

"I'm outraged by the mob attack," said the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, adding he would ask the Security Council to condemn it unanimously.

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Here's what I don't understand: with the institutional paranoia at the State department, especially since 9/11, all our embassies by now should look like fortresses. How did a rabble of protesters managed to overrun a U.S. embassy, and then set the damn thing on fire? Was this a real embassy? Or an office at a strip mall in the outskirts of Belgrade? Where were the Marines?