Ping Pong

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Benghazi and Chaffetz

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Marxist Group Claims It Bombed U.S. Embassy in Turkey

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2013 A Marxist group called the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bombing the previous day at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Embassy Attacks Spread to Yemen

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 13, 2012 Hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film chanted “death to America” as they stormed the American Embassy compound in the Yemeni capital on Thursday. The attack follows Tuesday's sacking of a U.S. consulate in Libya that killed the American ambassador and three others. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Egyptian Protesters Remove U.S. Flag During Attack on American Embassy

Staff / Truthdig Sep 11, 2012 It is believed that the demonstrators in Cairo were upset about a film production that they say insults the Prophet Muhammad. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iranians Take Out Anger on British Embassy

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2011 The Union Jack burned outside the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday as angry Iranian protesters charged the compound, smashed windows and demonstrated their displeasure with the British government's newly imposed sanctions in reaction to Iran's purported plans to develop nuclear weapons. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Withdrawal Means Withdrawal

Staff / Truthdig Oct 17, 2011 President Obama will be able to say that he kept one of his promises from the ’08 campaign trail come Dec. 31 of this year, when all but 160 American troops will leave Iraq after more than eight years of heavy military involvement (read: war) in the Middle Eastern nation. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Adm. Mullen Says Pakistan Intelligence Supports Bombers

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2011 Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen was unusually harsh in his criticism of Pakistan on Thursday, saying an insurgent network behind several Afghanistan bombings, including the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy, "acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency." (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Flagman and ‘Our Martyrs in Sinai’

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Aug 23, 2011 Yes, Flagman -- surely you've heard of the Egyptian superhero who scaled the 21 floors of the Israeli Embassy in the predawn hours Sunday. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Pro-Gov’t Protesters Descend Upon U.S., French Embassies in Syria

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2011 Syrian protesters siding with Prime Minister Bashar Assad's regime made their displeasure with the U.S. and France apparent, after those countries showed support for the opposition, by attacking their embassies in Damascus on Monday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Life Sentence for Embassy Bomber

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2011 He is the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in America's civilian courts, and on Tuesday a US district judge sentenced 36-year-old Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to life in prison without parole for plotting attacks on two U embassies in Africa. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Parcel Bombs Rattle Rome

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2010 Package bombs detonated at two embassies in Rome on Thursday, injuring one person at each post, in attacks similar to a spate of attempted bombings in Greece last month A Swiss Embassy employee suffered injuries to both hands . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )