How many embassy attacks under bush

A suicide bomber also blew himself up at the embassy. Six Yemeni police, four civilians including an American civilian , and six attackers were killed while six others were wounded in the attack. July 9, - 3 killed.

Four unknown gunmen killed three Turkish police at the U. AP photo. March 18, - 2 killed. A bomb hidden on a north Beirut highway hit a U.

Embassy vehicle, killing at least three Lebanese bystanders. The car's Lebanese driver and an American at a nearby school were wounded. July 8, - 2 killed. Two Iraqi U. Embassy workers were killed when the wife went to deliver a ransom for her husband who had been kidnapped in Baghdad. One of the couple's bodyguards was killed in the failed ransoming. Islamic militants attacked the U. One guard and the four attackers died.

March 2, - 4 killed. An unidentified driver detonated a car bomb while driving past the U. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing a himself, a U. Consulate worker and at least three others. Four American contractors employed with a private security firm supporting the regional U.

Three of the contractors died instantly, and the fourth died in a military hospital after the bombing. To date, nine of the al Qaeda members named in the indictments have been captured; six are in the United States, and three are in Britain fighting extradition to the United States.

In February , four of the suspects went on trial in New York on criminal counts stemming from the embassy attacks. On May 29, all four were convicted on all counts.

Lebanese-born U. All four were sentenced to life in prison without parole. On September 11, , the world learned that the U. On that day, 19 al Qaeda terrorists deftly exploited weaknesses in U. Four thousand people were killed in the almost simultaneous attacks and 10, were wounded.

On May 2, , bin Laden was killed by U. Navy SEALs. He was buried at sea. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! High above the early-morning traffic in Lower Manhattan, a French street performer steps off the roof of the south tower of the World Trade Center on August 7, Clad in black and carrying a long pole for balance, Philippe Petit begins the most famous high-wire walk in Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans dissatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft.

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According to records of the American Foreign Service Association, a total of 76 Americans serving overseas in diplomatic positions have died in 40 separate attacks between and This issue brief takes a look at how and why the political response to such tragedies has shifted. The list of fallen diplomats is a potent reminder of the extraordinary risks taken by the men and women who serve this country in embassies and consulates around the world. But it also raises another question: Why has the Benghazi attack received so much attention over the past 21 months, while few people seem to recall little or anything about the previous 39 attacks?

Is it that Benghazi stood out so dramatically from the other attacks in terms of the level of violence, the number of deaths, or the damage done to U. Alternatively, is the focus on Benghazi not the result of anything particularly unique about that attack but instead a measure of how much Congress has changed its approach to dealing with such tragedies?

One could argue that the Benghazi attack is similar to or perhaps even less remarkable than many of the preceding attacks in terms of death toll, damage done to national interests, or identified security gaps, and that the explanation for the inordinate amount of attention is largely a matter of fundamental changes in the nature of American politics and the behavior of Congress as an institution.

It seems beyond dispute that this Congress is dealing with the attack in Benghazi differently than previous Congresses dealt with such attacks. Data gathered for a recent Congressional Research Service report quantifies some of the differences. While Congress and the administration almost certainly had briefings and conversations about all of these attacks, they held no hearings and issued no reports on 25 of the 40 attacks the Congressional Research Service examined. Congress held a total of 59 hearings for the remaining 14 attacks; the large majority of these focused on only four attacks.

One of these, the bombing of the U. Embassy in Beirut, resulted in 63 deaths—17 U. The attack spawned four congressional hearings and one report. Only six months later, a second attack occurred: the bombing of the U.

Marine barracks near the Beirut airport. The Congressional Research Service did not include this attack in its analysis, but it arguably could have, since the servicemen who died were on a mission that was as diplomatic in nature as it was military. Caspar Weinberger, the U. The Marines were pulled out of Lebanon three months later, but even more serious concerns about the U.

S Embassy in Lebanon was bombed for the second time in 18 months. Twenty-four people died in the attack, including two American military personnel assigned to the embassy. The response on Capitol Hill was swift. Five days after the attack, a House Appropriations subcommittee held a hearing with senior representatives from the State Department; two weeks after the attack, the House Permanent and Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report on U. And a few weeks after the release of that report, a delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a second report on the security failures that allowed the attack to occur.

Over the next two years, 14 hearings dealt in some manner with the bombing. Most of these involved examining new and more secure ways to build and protect embassies—and the increased budget requirements such efforts would need. The two Beirut Embassy bombings accounted for 17 of the 65 hearings and reports analyzed by the Congressional Research Service. The embassy bombings in Nairobi accounted for another eight.

To date, the Benghazi incident accounts for 24 of the remaining 40 hearings and reports, and the hearing schedule of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has not yet been announced. Even though the Benghazi attack accounts for just 5 percent of the American lives lost—and less than 1 percent of the total lives lost—in the attacks on U.

One incident revolves around remarks made by Rep. He charged that senior administration officials not only were derelict in preventing the attack but also that they had deliberately blocked rescue efforts for the victims.