Worst Embassy Attacks

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

Diplomacy Under Fire

U.S. Embassy in Beirut

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April 18, 1983
Six months before terrorists killed 241 at a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, Islamic radicals bombed the U.S. Embassy and killed 63 people, including 17 Americans. It was one of the first times a suicide car bomb was used on an American target. The embassy was attacked again the next year, when a van driven by a suicide bomber exploded and killed 23.

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