#EmbassyDeaths

by kara on May 6, 2014

June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan: suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria: gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece: a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen: militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.

(from a DailyKOS post)

Sadly, Republicans need to keep harping on #Benghazi!!&#$^!! until Hillary announces, or voters will not be inculcated- instead they will be trying to recall who Ben Ghazi is/was? Was it some Olympic doping scandal- what’s the Clinton connection?

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