BAGHDAD — Four U.S. Embassy workers driving through Baghdad were stopped and detained by Iraqi security forces for two hours Thursday, a day after the embassy warned that some American citizens working here had been held for days over “discrepancies in permits and paperwork.” Read full article > >
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U.S. Embassy workers detained in Baghdad
At least one guard was injured by the gunman, who was later shot and wounded by the police, who sealed off the embassy grounds.
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Gunman Fires at U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo
Pakistan’s intelligence agency aided insurgents who attacked the embassy in Kabul last week, said Adm. Mike Mullen, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Mullen: Pakistan’s Spy Agency Supported U.S. Embassy Attack
TRIPOLI, Libya — The U.S. ambassador to Libya raised the American flag over a newly reopened embassy Thursday, a month after Moammar Gaddafi fled the capital and seven months after the embassy staff was forced out. “I never thought I’d come back, and I’m overjoyed,” ambassador Gene Cretz said as he stood under a date palm in the garden of his former residence, which will serve as the embassy until a permanent location is found. The old embassy was destroyed by pro-Gaddafi forces in May as distraught embassy staff monitored the situation from a temporary office in Washington. Read full article > >
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U.S. Embassy in Libya reopens
AMMAN, Jordan — Israel’s ambassador to Jordan returned to his post Friday, two days after he and his staff were brought back to Israel ahead of a planned march on the Israeli embassy. The protest Thursday, in which demonstrators demanded the expulsion of the ambassador, drew only about 200 people and was kept well away from the embassy building by a tight cordon of Jordanian police. Read full article > >
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Israeli ambassador back in Jordan
An American ambassador said on Wednesday that the Pakistan-based Haqqani network appeared to be responsible for an hours-long assault against the United States Embassy in Kabul and nearby NATO bases.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the mastermind of the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed in a shootout in Mogadishu.
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Somalis Kill Mastermind of 2 U.S. Embassy Bombings
In the 20 years since Mona Hajj opened her own firm in Baltimore, she has designed the interiors of the Embassy of Luxembourg in the District and a Maryland home by architect John Russell Pope (whose projects include the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives). Last year, she was named one of Architectural Digest’s top 100 designers and architects.
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Q&A with designer Mona Hajj
A protester took down the Libyan flag from the embassy in London, replacing it with the national flag from the pre-Gaddafi era.
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VIDEO: Libyan flag pulled from London embassy
The Foreign Office expected countries to ask for the loan of the SAS in a siege or hijack after the London Iranian Embassy rescue, newly-released files show.
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SAS ‘for hire’ after 1980 siege
