@hawkeye10,
Quote:What is a "diplomatic target?".
Conventional wisdom is wrong. There is such a thing as a 'dumb question'. google it, dummy.
http://wp.vcu.edu/hsep/2013/09/03/more-than-500-attacks-on-us-diplomatic-targets-since-1970-study-finds/
More Than 500 Attacks On US Diplomatic Targets Since 1970, Study Finds
September 3, 2013News and Updates
Diplomatic Targets– A new study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) found between 1970 and 2012 there were 521 terrorist attacks on US diplomatic targets overseas, including embassies, consulates and personnel in 92 countries.
Which leads to this:
http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/daily-news-analysis/single-article/more-than-500-attacks-on-us-diplomatic-targets-since-1970-study-finds/cdfb9d557de54dad19ffc32910c6d8a8.html
More Than 500 Attacks on US Diplomatic Targets since 1970, Study Finds
By: Anthony Kimery
08/21/2013 ( 9:52am)
A new study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) found between
1970 and 2012 there were 521 terrorist attacks on US diplomatic targets overseas, including embassies, consulates and personnel in 92 countries.
The study comes on the heels of the State Department’s decision earlier this month to issue a worldwide travel alert and close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa due to intelligence streams indicating potential attacks by Al Qaeda and affiliated organizations in the Arabian Peninsula.
Between 1970 and 2012, terrorist attacks targeting diplomatic facilities have resulted in nearly 500 deaths, almost half of which (43 percent) took place in the August 7, 1998 Al Qaeda attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the START report said.
In the Nairobi attack, a suicide truck bomb exploded outside the US Embassy, killing 213 people, including 12 Americans. Four thousand people were injured. A coordinated bombing by Al Qaeda occurred at the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Since the US Embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, there have been 81 attacks against US diplomatic targets in 35 countries, according to the START report, based on its Global Terrorism Database (GTD).
For 34 of these attacks, the GTD “identified a perpetrator group,” START found, noting that “Most of the perpetrators of these attacks belong to the Al Qaeda network.”
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) supports the efforts of START through a Center of Excellence program based at the University of Maryland. The mission of START is to provide science-based knowledge about the human causes and consequences of terrorism.
Between 1970 and 2012, START’s GTD found that there were more than 2,700 terrorist attacks on US targets abroad that caused more than 3,000 deaths (both US and foreign nationals), and of these attacks, 17.5 percent took place within the past decade.
More than half (54.5 percent) of all attacks on US targets abroad were bombings, 14.8 percent were armed assaults, 10.7 percent were kidnappings and 8.9 percent were facility/infrastructure attacks, the START study found. Assassinations represent 6.5 percent of attacks on US targets abroad and the remaining tactics include hijackings, hostage taking (barricade) incidents and unarmed assaults.
The vast majority of attacks on US targets abroad were non-lethal (70.3 percent), START found, but 52 attacks incurred more than 10 fatalities and three individual attacks in particular resulted in more than 200 fatalities.
On Aug. 2, 2013 the State Department issued an alert to Americans traveling abroad, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, citing potential threats from Al Qaeda and affiliated organizations in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. The alert referenced a wide variety of potential tactics and targets, and remains in effect throughout August.
On Aug. 4, the State Department released a subsequent statement indicating that out of an “abundance of caution,” diplomatic posts in Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Sana’a, Tripoli, Antananarivo, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Khartoum, Kigali and Port Louis will remain closed following the Eid celebration, through, Aug. 10.
On Aug. 6, the State Department issued a warning to Americans traveling in Yemen and announced a reduction in emergency US government personnel in Yemen. In light of these events, START compiled its background information on terrorist attacks against US targets abroad, attacks on US diplomatic targets in particular and the recent activity of AQAP using data from START’s GTD.
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