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In autumn 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly threatened to close the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraqi leaders did not prevent further attacks on the embassy. [47] According to some media sources, Pompeo informed Baghdad that it would target 120 sites in Iraq linked to Iran-backed militias if rocket attacks cost American lives.
According to reports, a lone gunman, identified as a Syrian national, attempted to carry out an attack on the US embassy. The gunman, who wore a military-style black vest and helmet, was armed with an assault rifle. [2] He opened fire at a military vehicle approaching the embassy, leading to a shootout. [3]
Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy. [18] November 28 Yugoslavia West Germany: Bonn: 1 1 Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood. [19] 1963 September 16 United Kingdom Indonesia: Jakarta: 0 0 Mob attack burnt the embassy and smashed all its windows. [20] 1964 March 5 and 8 United States Gabon ...
Jossie Schumake, a US embassy representative in Mexico City, speaks to the press September 11, 2001 during a evacuation of the US embassy in Mexico City after attacks on New York City and ...
The embassy was previously targeted in an attack on 18 March, though the mortar shells fired at the embassy missed it and instead hit a girls school nearby, injuring 13 children. [1] The attack, as well as another targeting a residential compound housing Americans workers in April were attributed to the Soldier's Brigade of Yemen, an offshoot ...
Four embassy personnel were killed in the attack: a U.S. Marine Security Guard, a U.S. Army warrant officer, and two local Pakistani employees. The American ambassador Arthur W. Hummel Jr. was outside of the embassy at the time of the attack and therefore was able to escape from the rioters before being harmed.
The United States blamed Pakistan's government, mainly Pakistani Army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy network as the masterminds behind the attack. [8] U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, told Radio Pakistan that "The attack that took place in Kabul a few days ago, that was the work of the Haqqani network. There is ...
On 24 April 2012, Jašarević was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on charges of attempted murder and other violations in connection with the attack. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] A Bosnian court sentenced him on 6 December 2012 to 18 years in prison. [ 5 ]