article_snippet: (CNN)Diplomacy can be dangerous.
article_snippet: Cleo Noel Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Sudan, was nearing the end of a March 1973 reception in the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum when terrorists stormed in.
article_snippet: A former eight-story hotel facing the sea transformed into the embassy turned into a war zone in April 1983, when a truck loaded with explosives was rammed into a truck loaded with explosives entrance.
article_snippet: Offices were pancaked on top of each other, the elevator shaft and stairwell destroyed, the cafeteria full of bodies and rubble, recalled the then U.S. ambassador Robert Dillon, who himself was dug out of the rubble.
article_snippet: While 44 people inside the embassy survived the blast, 17 Americans, 25 Foreign Service nationals, 10 contract workers and 10 visa applicants and passerby
article_snippet: On August 7, 1998 -- around the exact same time a bomb went off at the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 11 -- a huge explosion tore through the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
article_snippet: That's where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was when mortar and rocket fire struck a U.S. diplomatic annex there.
article_snippet: Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old public diplomacy officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, was delivering books to a school in southern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber smashed into a suicide bomber convoy.
article_snippet: "CNN thought a suicide bomber was relatively safe in the embassy compound," a suicide bomber father Tom Smedinghoff told CNN.