Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Legions of EVE Online gamers knew the information technology specialist as "Vile Rat" from the guild Goonswarm. 
  
 Before the State Department confirmed to the mainstream news media that Sean Smith, the Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was among those killed in an attack, gamers had already spread the shocking news through the network of EVE Online players. 
  
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 After serving 10 years in the Air Force around the world in Baghdad, Pretoria, Montreal and The Hague, Smith took his fight virtual in CCP Games’ popular online space combat game, EVE Online. The gaming world knew Smith as “Vile Rat,” a leader in the guild Goonswarm. 
  
 The 34-year-old husband and father of two was also a dedicated gamer, logging many hours online in the complex space game consisting of huge warring corporations set within a reality-based virtual economy. For over 10 years, a thriving community of over 400,000 PC gamers from around the world have gathered in the futuristic massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. Sony Computer Entertainment is launching a new space combat offshoot of this world, DUST 514, this fall for PlayStation 3 gamers, which will connect console gamers with PC gamers. 
  
 Smith also volunteered as a moderator for the Intern community site, Something Awful. 
  
 With the consulate under siege, Smith typed a message to Goonswarm director Alex “The Mittani” Gianturco, “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” 
  
 Before the news media heard about the four deaths, Gianturco alerted Smith’s fellow guild members with this post this morning: “My people, I have greivous [sic] news. Vile Rat has been confirmed to be KIA in Benghazi; his family has been informed and the news is likely to break out on the wire services soon. Needless to say, we are in shock, have no words, and have nothing but sympathy for his family and children. I have known Vile Rat since 2006, he was one of the oldest of old-guard goons and one of the best and most effective diplomats this game has ever seen.” 
  
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 U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was also killed in the attack, along with two other men. The gunmen who stormed the building blamed America for a film they claim insulted the Prophet Mohammad. ||||| The grenade assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Tuesday was originally thought to have been sparked by rage over an anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. 
  
 But U.S sources now tell CNN that the operation was planned by an al-Qaeda offshoot that may have used the angry protest outside as a diversion. 
  
 The attack killed the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, 52-year-old Christopher Stevens, as well as three of his colleagues. 
  
 Libya's Ambassador to the U.S., Ali Suleiman Aujali, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that he had lost a personal friend in the attack. 
  
 “This is one of the saddest days in my life,” Aujali said. “He is a man who knows Libya very well, before and after [the revolution]. He was the man who stood by the Libyan people. He was the right man, in the right place, at the right time. It is a great loss for the Libyan people.” 
  
 Stevens played a key role during Libya's revolution last year. He began his job as ambassador only a few months ago. 
  
 The Libyan government quickly denounced Tuesday's attack and promised to bring the killers to justice. 
  
 Mohammed Al-Megaryef, the head of the ruling GNC party said, "We apologize to the U.S., and to the American people and to the government, and to the rest of the world for what happened yesterday." 
  
 The majority of Libyans, 54%, actually approve of U.S. leadership, one of the highest approval ratings Gallup has ever recorded in the Arab World. 
  
 Libya has vowed to hunt down the killers and President Obama has insisted they be brought to justice. 
  
 Aujali said he’s confident that Libya can deliver. 
  
 “In the last few weeks there were also car bombs in Tripoli, and we have been able to capture some of the people responsible for that. And that was a line to lead to us to [the people] responsible and to the financial support they get from overseas.” 
  
 Aujali said that it’s imperative Libya find the group that carried out the attack, not just for the sake of the relationship with the U.S., but also for the very stability of the country. 
  
 “We must know these cells working in Libya do destabilize Libya – to destabilize our relations with friendly countries.” 
  
 A somber U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack. 
  
 “Today many Americans are asking - indeed I asked myself - how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated - and at times, how confounding - the world can be. But we must be clear eyed, even in our grief. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya.” 
  
 Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder and CEO of the Cordoba Initiative, told Amanpour, “The Quran states explicitly that no soul shall be responsible for the sins or the crimes of another. And while this film is indeed offensive, and those who have done this have done this deliberately to offend Muslims, we should not kill innocent people." 
  
 James Rubin, former assistant secretary of state under president Clinton – and Amanpour’s husband – said of the U.S., “We are a country where the word ‘tolerance’ is built deeply into our system, and we have to make that true both through law enforcement, through education.” 
  
 Rubin added, “We can defend somebody’s right to speak but that doesn’t mean we can’t condemn what they say. And we have to be very clear on that. And we can’t let the Arab Spring be hijacked by the extremists and remember that it’s a good news story – a positive development for the people of the Middle East.” ||||| U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens spoke to local journalists on April 11, 2011, at the Tibesty Hotel in Benghazi, where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders. (Ben Curtis/AP) 
  
 J. Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador killed Tuesday in an attack in Benghazi, Libya, hitched a ride into that country last year by sea — the only way in with a civil war in progress. 
  
 “There weren’t any flights, so we came in by a Greek cargo ship,” Mr. Stevens told reporters not long afterward, recalling his arrival in Benghazi as the top U.S. envoy to Libya’s rebel movement. 
  
 When he and his American colleagues reached the rebel-held city, they were greeted by a group of Libyans carrying U.S., British, French and Qatari flags in the courthouse square. Mr. Stevens said he and the other Americans found that they had no place to sleep, so they bunked that first night back on the ship. 
  
 The improbable journey was fitting for Mr. Stevens, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was fluent in Arabic and who had traveled throughout the Middle East. An easygoing but determined career diplomat, he had made the region the focus of his two-decade career. 
  
 Describing the episode during a visit to Washington, he played down the dangers inherent in opening a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Instead, he focused on explaining his mission there: to support a democratic transition in Libya, which had been ruled by Moammar Gaddafi for four decades. 
  
 “It’s especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi, because it is a city that he helped to save,” President Obama, standing alongside Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said in a brief tribute Wednesday at the White House. “He worked tirelessly to support this young democracy.” 
  
 The attack on the U.S. Consulate building also killed diplomat Sean Smith, 34, an Air Force veteran who had served in various U.S. missions over the past decade, as well as two other diplomats whose identities have not been released, pending notification of their families. Mr. Stevens, 52, was the first sitting U.S. ambassador to be killed in a violent attack since 1979. 
  
 Officials said the ambassador, who was stationed at the embassy in Tripoli, was visiting the consulate at the time of the attack. The apparent cause of his death was smoke inhalation, according to several U.S. officials briefed on the attack, although the State Department has not confirmed that. 
  
 ‘Courage and talent’ 
  
 Funny and charming, with a broad smile and wide curiosity, Mr. Stevens made friends easily and kept them, colleagues said. He was well-known for haggling at the shops of the Old City in Jerusalem and lingering over coffee in the walled Old City in Tripoli. 
  
 “We were on opposite sides in a way,” said Ghaith al-Omari, a former top adviser to the Palestinian Authority who first dealt with Mr. Stevens during peace negotiations. 
  
 “During a meeting, he was very proper and professional. Having a coffee after the meeting, he was very friendly” and asked a lot of questions, Omari said. “You ended up with a diplomat who had texture.” 
  
 Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns said Wednesday that he had followed Mr. Stevens’s career and believed him to be one of “the very finest officers of his generation in the Foreign Service.” 
  
 “I last saw Chris on a visit to Libya about six weeks ago, shortly after his arrival as ambassador, and I remember thinking on the plane ride home that his was the kind of courage and talent and leadership that would inspire another generation of American diplomats,” Burns said. “We will miss him deeply but long remember his example.” 
  
 Mr. Stevens had served in Israel, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, but Libya became the center of his career. He served there three times, beginning in the years before Gaddafi fell, when the mercurial leader was trying to repair decades of poor relations with Washington. Mr. Stevens was the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya from 2007 to 2009. 
  
 When the Arab Spring revolts spread to Libya, Mr. Stevens became the Obama administration’s envoy to the opposition there, meeting with representatives overseas and eventually setting up the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. He returned to what he proudly called a “democratic Libya” as ambassador this spring. 
  
 A former State Department colleague, Wayne White, said Mr. Stevens used his disarming charm to persuade others. He recalled that Mr. Stevens would arrive in his office with a “big smile” and then give him some work. 
  
 The work might not have always been welcome, “but it was better if it came from Chris. He was just such a genuinely intelligent, high-minded guy,” White said. 
  
 As a diplomat, Mr. Stevens had a direct style that is unusual among his peers. Preparing then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a meeting with Gaddafi in 2008, he alluded to Gaddafi’s crush on Rice. 
  
 “A self-styled intellectual and philosopher, he has been eagerly anticipating for several years the opportunity to share with you his views on global affairs,” Mr. Stevens wrote in a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks. 
  
 Rice later recalled Gaddafi’s interest in her as “creepy.” 
  
 ‘He wasn’t afraid’ 
  
 Mr. Stevens, who grew up near Oakland, Calif., went to the University of California at Berkeley. He never married and had no children. His brother Tom Stevens, an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, said the family had worried at times about Mr. Stevens’s safety. 
  
 “He was good-natured about it. He wasn’t afraid in places other people might think were scary,” Tom Stevens said. 
  
 Speaking with a Washington Post reporter in June, Mr. Stevens acknowledged a rise in violence in Libya, especially among small Islamist groups. 
  
 “It’s a function of there being a lot of freedom and desire to express views and agendas,” he said. “When people cross the line, it’s also a function of a lack of a strong state and police to enforce the law.” 
  
 Austin Tichenor, a high school classmate who became a college roommate and lifelong friend, said Mr. Stevens was passionate about a career that was worlds away from his own. 
  
 “He understood so much about the Middle East,” said Tichenor, an actor and writer. “The only small solace is that he died the same way he lived,” in the thick of things. 
  
 Mr. Stevens had worked as an international trade lawyer and a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco before joining the State Department. 
  
 Arash Babaoff, a friend of Mr. Stevens’s since the 1990s, described him as an intensely committed diplomat. 
  
 “It was his life,” Babaoff said. “He was just someone who really had his heart in this, and he really felt like he was making relationships and headway.” 
  
 Babaoff called the killing “a blow to idealism.” 
  
 Tara Bahrampour and Julie Tate contributed to this report. |||||
Output:
In the wake of the Libya attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, colleagues and officials are remembering those who died: "This is one of the saddest days in my life," says Stevens' Libyan counterpart, ambassador to the US Ali Suleiman Aujali. "He was the man who stood by the Libyan people. He was the right man, in the right place, at the right time." He believes his country will bring the perpetrators to justice, CNN reports. A passionate diplomat, Stevens aimed to aid the post-Gadhafi transition in Libya. “It was his life,” says a friend. “He was just someone who really had his heart in this, and he really felt like he was making relationships and headway.” Stevens, a California native, had "the kind of courage and talent and leadership that would inspire another generation of American diplomats," a State department official tells the Washington Post. "We will miss him deeply but long remember his example." An interesting footnote on another of those killed, information management officer Sean Smith: He was a passionate player of video game EVE Online, in which he took a leading role as "Vile Rat." Players of the game were aware of his fate even before the media, notes the Hollywood Reporter: Smith had messaged a fellow gamer about the danger.