On Sept. 17, militants launched the worst attack on a U.S. embassy in a decade, killing 17 people with car bombs, machine gun fire and grenades. It's not the first time an embassy has been used to send a message to (or blackmail) a representative country and sadly, it probably won't be the last.
Kate Pickert
September 9, 2004
Suicide bombers with purported links to al-Qaeda detonated a bomb outside the gates of the embassy in Jakarta, killing 11 people and wounding about 200. Six men were eventually convicted of being involved in the attack, which prosecutors said was prompted by Australia's military involvement in the war in Iraq.
