CAIRO: Embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions international are often thought to be places of sanctuary, then again, now not all have been impervious to horrific incidents.
When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished after getting into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul final week it caused Turkish officers and media to assert he could have been killed and even dismembered via a squad of assassins on the premises. The macabre thriller stirred reminiscences of cases when diplomatic missions became places of terror.
Brutal killings, suicide bombings, militant raids and hostage crises _ embassies and consulates have seen various tragedy and bloodshed.
Here are only a few of many examples:
BENGHAZI, ATTACK ON US COMPOUNDS IN LIBYA
Libyan extremists from the militant Ansar al-Shariah staff attacked two US compounds — a diplomatic put up and a CIA annex nearby — within the city of Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, setting off a night of rampage that killed 4 Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, and gutted the constructions. Last yr, a jury in Washington convicted 47-year-old Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khattala on a couple of terrorism-related charges for his position within the attacks.
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY BOMBING IN JAKARTA
Suspected Muslim militants detonated a automobile bomb outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 9, 2004, killing eight folks, including an embassy guard, policemen on accountability, two embassy staff and a visa applicant.
MYANMAR EMBASSY SIEGE IN BANGKOK
A shadowy staff known as the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors stormed the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on Oct. 7, 1999. They took 38 hostages to call for democracy in their country, often referred to as Burma. Thailand allowed them to fly to the border, angering Myanmar however finishing the standoff without bloodshed.
US BOMBING OF CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE
NATO bombs hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade via mistake on May eight, 1999, killing three Chinese reporters. In China, protesters retaliated via attacking US missions.
AL-QAIDA BOMBINGS OF US EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA
Al-Qaida launched near-simultaneous truck bombings on Aug. 7, 1998, concentrated on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 folks. Most of the sufferers were Kenyans however 12 Americans also died. The mastermind at the back of the attacks, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, eluded seize for 13 years prior to he used to be gunned down at a security checkpoint in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, a month after al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be killed via Navy SEALs in Pakistan in May 2011.
ISLAMIC JIHAD'S ATTACK ON EGYPTIAN EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed truck into the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad on Nov. 19, 1995, killing 15 folks, including the second secretary of the embassy and three Egyptian safety guards. Egypt handed down a dying sentence in absentia to its citizen Ayman al-Zawahri, who led the militant staff and later merged it with al-Qaida, for this attack. Al-Zawahri succeeded bin Laden as al-Qaida's leader.
JAPANESE EMBASSY HOSTAGE CRISIS IN PERU
Leftist Tupac Amaru rebels seized the Japanese ambassador's place of abode in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 17, 1996, right through a birthday party celebrating Emperor Akihito's birthday, taking diplomats, guests and executive officers hostage and important the release of their imprisoned comrades. The rebels held 72 hostages for 126 days prior to executive troops stormed the premises; one hostage, two commandos and all rebels were killed. The tale inspired the best-seller "Bel Canto" via US writer Ann Patchett.
ATTACKS ON ISRAELI EMBASSY, JEWISH CENTER IN ARGENTINA
A bomb flattened the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1992, killing 29 folks, including 4 Israelis. Two years later, a Jewish community middle within the city used to be bombed, killing 85 folks — the deadliest bombing ever in Argentina. Israel and Argentina have long accused Iran of being at the back of the bombings. Iran has denied any position within the attacks.
BEIRUT, US EMBASSY BOMBING
A suicide bombing on April 18, 1983, at the United States Embassy in Beirut killed 63 folks, including 17 Americans. The sufferers were mostly embassy and CIA body of workers, but additionally a number of US squaddies and a Marine. It used to be the deadliest attack on an American diplomatic undertaking up to that point. A shadowy Shiite staff calling itself Islamic Holy War took accountability.
IRAN, US EMBASSY IN TEHRAN
Militant Iranian students stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran on Nov. four, 1979, and took 52 Americans hostages. The attackers demanded the return of the shah to Iran to face trial. President Jimmy Carter refused and launched a failed commando raid to loose the captives. Six Americans who fled the preliminary takeover and located shelter with the Canadian ambassador later escaped Iran with the CIA's lend a hand. Their escape used to be dramatized within the 2012 movie "Argo." Iran held the hostages for 444 days, freeing them best after the 1981 inauguration of President Ronald Reagan.
WEST GERMAN EMBASSY SIEGE IN STOCKHOLM
German anarchists of the Red Army Faction shot their method into the West German Embassy in Stockholm on April 24, 1975, hard the release of their comrades from prisons again home. They took 12 embassy body of workers hostage, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecher. During the standoff with the Swedish police, the attackers killed the army and the economic attaches prior to by chance blowing up a part of the development.
ATTACK ON SAUDI EMBASSY IN KHARTOUM
The Palestinian terror staff Black September attacked the Saudi Embassy within the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, right through a formal reception on March 1, 1973 and took 10 diplomats hostage. After President Richard Nixon refused to negotiate with the attackers, three Western hostages were killed, including George Curtis Moore, the United States rate d'affaires.
ISRAELI EMBASSY IN BANKOK HOSTAGE CRISIS
The Black September faction took over the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Dec. 28, 1972, and held six Israeli embassy body of workers hostage. The hijackers agreed after negotiations to leave in exchange for secure habits to Egypt.
YUGOSLAV EMBASSY IN STOCKHOLM
Two Croatian separatists stormed the Yugoslav Embassy in Stockholm on April 7, 1971, the place they held and mortally wounded Ambassador Vladimir Rolovic. The attackers were later stuck and convicted in Sweden. One of them, Miro Baresic, used to be released in 1972 as part of calls for via Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight. He used to be later extradited from Paraguay to Sweden to serve the rest of his sentence.
When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished after getting into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul final week it caused Turkish officers and media to assert he could have been killed and even dismembered via a squad of assassins on the premises. The macabre thriller stirred reminiscences of cases when diplomatic missions became places of terror.
Brutal killings, suicide bombings, militant raids and hostage crises _ embassies and consulates have seen various tragedy and bloodshed.
Here are only a few of many examples:
BENGHAZI, ATTACK ON US COMPOUNDS IN LIBYA
Libyan extremists from the militant Ansar al-Shariah staff attacked two US compounds — a diplomatic put up and a CIA annex nearby — within the city of Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, setting off a night of rampage that killed 4 Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, and gutted the constructions. Last yr, a jury in Washington convicted 47-year-old Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khattala on a couple of terrorism-related charges for his position within the attacks.
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY BOMBING IN JAKARTA
Suspected Muslim militants detonated a automobile bomb outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 9, 2004, killing eight folks, including an embassy guard, policemen on accountability, two embassy staff and a visa applicant.
MYANMAR EMBASSY SIEGE IN BANGKOK
A shadowy staff known as the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors stormed the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok on Oct. 7, 1999. They took 38 hostages to call for democracy in their country, often referred to as Burma. Thailand allowed them to fly to the border, angering Myanmar however finishing the standoff without bloodshed.
US BOMBING OF CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE
NATO bombs hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade via mistake on May eight, 1999, killing three Chinese reporters. In China, protesters retaliated via attacking US missions.
AL-QAIDA BOMBINGS OF US EMBASSIES IN EAST AFRICA
Al-Qaida launched near-simultaneous truck bombings on Aug. 7, 1998, concentrated on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 folks. Most of the sufferers were Kenyans however 12 Americans also died. The mastermind at the back of the attacks, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, eluded seize for 13 years prior to he used to be gunned down at a security checkpoint in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, a month after al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be killed via Navy SEALs in Pakistan in May 2011.
ISLAMIC JIHAD'S ATTACK ON EGYPTIAN EMBASSY IN PAKISTAN
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed truck into the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad on Nov. 19, 1995, killing 15 folks, including the second secretary of the embassy and three Egyptian safety guards. Egypt handed down a dying sentence in absentia to its citizen Ayman al-Zawahri, who led the militant staff and later merged it with al-Qaida, for this attack. Al-Zawahri succeeded bin Laden as al-Qaida's leader.
JAPANESE EMBASSY HOSTAGE CRISIS IN PERU
Leftist Tupac Amaru rebels seized the Japanese ambassador's place of abode in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 17, 1996, right through a birthday party celebrating Emperor Akihito's birthday, taking diplomats, guests and executive officers hostage and important the release of their imprisoned comrades. The rebels held 72 hostages for 126 days prior to executive troops stormed the premises; one hostage, two commandos and all rebels were killed. The tale inspired the best-seller "Bel Canto" via US writer Ann Patchett.
ATTACKS ON ISRAELI EMBASSY, JEWISH CENTER IN ARGENTINA
A bomb flattened the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1992, killing 29 folks, including 4 Israelis. Two years later, a Jewish community middle within the city used to be bombed, killing 85 folks — the deadliest bombing ever in Argentina. Israel and Argentina have long accused Iran of being at the back of the bombings. Iran has denied any position within the attacks.
BEIRUT, US EMBASSY BOMBING
A suicide bombing on April 18, 1983, at the United States Embassy in Beirut killed 63 folks, including 17 Americans. The sufferers were mostly embassy and CIA body of workers, but additionally a number of US squaddies and a Marine. It used to be the deadliest attack on an American diplomatic undertaking up to that point. A shadowy Shiite staff calling itself Islamic Holy War took accountability.
IRAN, US EMBASSY IN TEHRAN
Militant Iranian students stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran on Nov. four, 1979, and took 52 Americans hostages. The attackers demanded the return of the shah to Iran to face trial. President Jimmy Carter refused and launched a failed commando raid to loose the captives. Six Americans who fled the preliminary takeover and located shelter with the Canadian ambassador later escaped Iran with the CIA's lend a hand. Their escape used to be dramatized within the 2012 movie "Argo." Iran held the hostages for 444 days, freeing them best after the 1981 inauguration of President Ronald Reagan.
WEST GERMAN EMBASSY SIEGE IN STOCKHOLM
German anarchists of the Red Army Faction shot their method into the West German Embassy in Stockholm on April 24, 1975, hard the release of their comrades from prisons again home. They took 12 embassy body of workers hostage, including Ambassador Dietrich Stoecher. During the standoff with the Swedish police, the attackers killed the army and the economic attaches prior to by chance blowing up a part of the development.
ATTACK ON SAUDI EMBASSY IN KHARTOUM
The Palestinian terror staff Black September attacked the Saudi Embassy within the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, right through a formal reception on March 1, 1973 and took 10 diplomats hostage. After President Richard Nixon refused to negotiate with the attackers, three Western hostages were killed, including George Curtis Moore, the United States rate d'affaires.
ISRAELI EMBASSY IN BANKOK HOSTAGE CRISIS
The Black September faction took over the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Dec. 28, 1972, and held six Israeli embassy body of workers hostage. The hijackers agreed after negotiations to leave in exchange for secure habits to Egypt.
YUGOSLAV EMBASSY IN STOCKHOLM
Two Croatian separatists stormed the Yugoslav Embassy in Stockholm on April 7, 1971, the place they held and mortally wounded Ambassador Vladimir Rolovic. The attackers were later stuck and convicted in Sweden. One of them, Miro Baresic, used to be released in 1972 as part of calls for via Croatian hijackers of a Swedish domestic flight. He used to be later extradited from Paraguay to Sweden to serve the rest of his sentence.
When embassies become places of terror, not sanctuaries
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