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State Dept’s Antiterrorism Assistance Program Costs Approx $1,800/Student Per...
The State Department’s OIG recently released its Evaluation of the Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) Program for Countries Under the Bureaus of Near Eastern Affairs and South and Central Asian Affairs...
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Compensating the Victims of the August 7, 1998 Embassy Bombings Would Set a...
Fourteen years ago today, between 10:30 am and 10:40 am local time (3:30–3:40 am Washington time), suicide bombers in trucks laden with explosives parked outside our embassies in Dar es Salaam,...
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USCG Peshawar: Robert Reed Assumes Charge as Consul General
The new Consul General for the USCG Peshawar arrived last month and has assumed charge. This is one officer who did not just do one week of crash and bang at some Virginia farm. Robert Reed joined the...
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US Mission Afghanistan: USAID Sub-Contractors Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
WaPo reports that today’s attack in Kabul was carried out by a suicide bomber who rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the Kabul International...
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Pickering Accountability Review Board to Start Work This Week
Updated @8:33 am PST: The ARB announcement is set to be published on October 4, 2012. The pre-publication notice in the Federal Register dated October 1 went online today, October 3, with all the names...
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Protecting Diplomats Post-Embassy Attacks: More Fortresses or Rethinking...
The Skeptical Bureaucrat in his blog points out that the USG investment in new, secure, embassy buildings paid off very big for those employees who were inside the safe havens in Tunis, Khartoum, and...
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US Embassy Yemen: FSN Qassim Aklan Killed in Motorcycle Drive-by Shooting
The State Department released this statement on October 11: We are deeply saddened by the killing of Qassim M. Aklan, a longtime employee of the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a. We condemn this vicious act in...
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Quickie: Goldberg’s Benghazi Embarrassment, But Who’s Red on the Face?
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic writes: The embarrassment of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi is not that it happened. America has its victories against...
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Quickie: Former FSO Richard Jackson on Missing the Point on Benghazi
Richard Jackson, former Foreign Service Officer, State Dept. director for Egypt and North Africa and president emeritus of Anatolia College writes in The Hill’s Congress blog about Missing the point on...
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HFAC on Dec 20: Secretary Clinton to Testify on Benghazi Post-ARB Release
Last week, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released a statement announcing that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify at an open...
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US Embassy Yemen: AQAP Offers Gold Bounty for Ambassador Feierstein
Reuters reported recently that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was offering three kilograms of gold for the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, Gerald Feierstein. The group also offers to...
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Senate Report on Benghazi Cites “Grievous Mistake” for Non-Suspension of...
The Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs on December 30, 2012 issued its Benghazi report, Flashing Red: A Special Report On The Terrorist Attack At Benghazi. The report says...
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US Embassy Algiers: Hostages Taken at In Amenas Gas Complex in Algeria
The notice below is not showing on US Embassy Algiers website as of this writing, but is available on the DS-run OSAC website. The embassy issued the following emergency message for U.S. Citizens in...
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US Embassy Turkey: Mourning Mustafa Akarsu
The following is an excerpt from Ambassador Frank Ricciardone on the passing of local guard, Mustafa Akarsu who was killed last week in the suicide bombing at the US Embassy in Ankara: We lost a brave...
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Ambassador Prudence Bushnell: At the NPC on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Via the NPC: Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, CEO of consulting firm Sage Associates, will address embassy security in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi at a Newsmaker press...
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State Department’s Worldwide Caution, Etcetera — #Benghazi, So Soon Forgotten
On February 19, 2013, the State Department issued a Worldwide Caution to update everyone on “the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against U.S. citizens and interests throughout the...
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Thank You For Your Help – Mustafa Akarsu Family Fund Hits $107,551
Two months ago I’ve blogged about the passing of Mustafa Akarsu, the local guard at the US Embassy in Ankara who was killed in the suicide attack on February 1 (see US Embassy Turkey: Suicide Bomber...
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2005 Jeddah ARB Recommended “Remote Safe Areas” for Embassies – Upgrades...
The results of the Accountability Review Board convened after the terrorist attack of the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah was never released to the public. So the only recommendation that we know of,...
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US Embassy Beirut Marks 30th Anniversary of Embassy Bombing in Ain El Mraise
Today, the US Embassy in Lebanon gathered at the Embassy in Awkar to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Embassy bombing in Ain El Mraiseh on April 18, 1983. The incident’s entry in Wikipedia says...
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