Moderator Viola Gienger, Washington-based freelance reporter covering U.S. foreign and defense policy, formerly Pentagon and State Department correspondent for Bloomberg News, Tom DeFrank, Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Daily News and Said Arikat, Washington correspondent for Al Quds Daily Newspaper discuss the attacks on US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and elsewhere that resulted in the deaths of four diplomats including US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens; protests throughout the Middle East over a privately produced US video mocking the Prophet Muhammad; reaction to the crisis by both the Obama administration and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney; and the impact of events on US policy toward Syria.