beforehand. both incidents reportedly in reaction to a little-known amateur movie produced reportedly in the u.s. which ridiculed the prophet muhammad. it gained some attention overseas in part because a florida pastor began promoting it, the same one who triggered deadly riots in afghanistan last year by threatening to burn the koran. we'll get to the politics of this in just a moment. tina brown, though, your first reaction as you see this this morning. this is a very dicey situation which could become much dicier if, in fact, reports are confirmed that the u.s. ambassador to libya has been killed. >> again, it does show how inflammatory and inflamable the islamic sensibility can be when something as random as, you know, a crazy bigot can post something on the internet and it goes wild, and it can make a crowd act in this way. it also shows, in my view, how incredibly important it is to keep our eye on this problem and