'He is still alive!': Video shows the moment ambassador's body is pulled from embassy . . . as witness says he was breathing

  • Video shows a man later found to be Ambassador Chris Stevens being pulled out of a room following attack in Benghazi
  • Libyans reportedly shout 'God is great!' after finding out that Stevens is alive and breathing
  • He later died of smoke inhalation
  • Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah gives speech condemning anyone who supports anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims

By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press

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Ambassador Chris Stevens was still breathing as Libyans pulled him from a room where he was found after last week's attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, according to an eyewitness.

A video shot after the assault on the consulate shows people scrambling to save Stevens after he was discovered in a room of the building.

Fahd al-Bakoush said he was there when a crowd pulled Stevens out of the room inside the consulate where someone stumbled across him, thinking he was dead.

No one knew who he was.

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Help: The Libyans can be seen showing concern as they try to clear the way to get Stevens out of the room in the burned out consulate building in Benghazi

Help: The Libyans can be seen showing concern as they try to clear the way to get Stevens out of the room in the burned out consulate building in Benghazi

Desperate: Stevens' legs can be seen emerging from the doorway as Libyans are apparently trying to help him

Desperate: Stevens' legs can be seen emerging from the doorway as Libyans are apparently trying to help him

Al-Bakoush told the Associated Press on Monday that Stevens was breathing, though his face was blackened and he seemed paralyzed.

A translation provided by The New York Times shows that one of the Libyans said: 'I swear, he's dead.'

Another man says: 'Bring him out, man! Bring him out,' another says.

There is hope as others are heard saying: 'The man is alive. Move out of the way. Just bring him out, man.

'Move, move, he is still alive!'

Ambassador: Chris Stevens, left, was believed to have been alive as he was pulled out of a room in the consulate hours after the attack

Ambassador: Chris Stevens, left, was believed to have been alive as he was pulled out of a room in the consulate hours after the attack

Struggle: A crowd that had developed around the entrance to the room shouted with joy after Stevens' was found to still be alive, but he later died at a hospital

Struggle: A crowd that had developed around the entrance to the room shouted with joy after Stevens' was found to still be alive, but he later died at a hospital

The crowd that had formed in the area then shouts: 'Alive, Alive! God is great.'

Al-Bakoush said the crowd carried Stevens to a private car to drive him to a hospital, since there was no ambulance.

Three other Americans died in the Tuesday attack, part of a wave of unrest over an anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims.

In an original English version and another dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, Mohammed is branded a child molester, a fraud and a madman, and he's shown him having sex and calling for massacres.

Deadly attack: Four Americans were killed when militants stormed the American consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the building

Deadly attack: Four Americans were killed when militants stormed the American consulate in Benghazi and set fire to the building

Arguing for action: Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah pushed for the creation of an international law that would ban insults of Islam in wake of the offensive film that prompted global protests

Arguing for action: Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah pushed for the creation of an international law that would ban insults of Islam in wake of the offensive film that prompted global protests

Meanwhile, the leader of the Hezbollah militant group called for protests against the film and said the U.S. must be held accountable for it, a move that may escalate tensions in the Arab world.

In a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah pushed for the creation of an international law that would ban insults of Islam and other religions, citing similar laws that exist to prevent anti-Semitism.

'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,' Mr Nasrallah said.

Aflame: The U.S. consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States

Aflame: The U.S. consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States

Burned out: Little is left in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi following the devastating attack by militants that left four Americans dead

Burned out: Little is left in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi following the devastating attack by militants that left four Americans dead

He called for protests on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, urging protesters to call on their leaders to express their anger too.

'We should not only express our anger at an American embassy here or there. We should tell our rulers in the Arab and Muslim world that it is "your responsibility in the first place" and since you officially represent the governments and states of the Muslim world you should impose on the United States, Europe and the whole world that our prophet, our Koran and our holy places and honor of our Prophet be respected,' he said.

Emotions run high: Thousands of protesters shout slogans during a march in Lahore, Pakistan, against an anti-Islam film made in the U.S.

Emotions run high: Thousands of protesters shout slogans during a march in Lahore, Pakistan, against an anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims, which was made in the U.S.

A 14-minute excerpt of the film, which is both in English and dubbed into Arabic, has been available on YouTube, although some countries have cut access to the site.

The violence began Tuesday when mainly Islamist protesters climbed the U.S. Embassy walls in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and tore down the American flag from a pole in the courtyard.

President Obama has vowed that the attackers would be brought to justice but also stressed that the U.S. respects religious freedom.

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The man who was spirited into the country to help organize the resistance to Gaddafi and help arm them was on a clandestine mission to try and retrieve some of the more dangerous arms. This doesn't sound like a typical State Department bureaucrat. This sounds like a station chief.

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Chris Stevens was a genuine hero, a man who tried hard to cross cultural and sectarian divides. It's easy to pick holes in America's foreign policy -- I do it all the time -- but we must understand that there are men and women out there who are literally putting their lives on the line so that we may sleep safely at night. RIP, Chris Stevens.

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What a mess

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Happy to see the phrase 'God is Great' used in a context that i'm not usually used to seeing when these types of Video's from that part of the world are posted. I cannot however imagine what it must be like for Ambassador Steven's Family. This video and all of the others are so heartbreaking! Rest in Peace Sir.

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It's good to see that they tried to help him, and important for people unfamiliar with Muslims that they don't just shout "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) before something bad happens. It's also a sign of something good, like when they thought he might still be alive. Thoughts and prayers for the families of those killed. I hope that those on the side of peace and tolerance thrive in Libya.

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