DesideriScuri
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Um, did Bush lie about any of those attacks? The "cause" of any of those attacks? Did Bush have his UN envoy lie to the UN about the attacks?
I'm pretty sure W never even held a press conference on any of them.
Huh. So, there was no lie about the attacks. There was no lie about the cause of the attacks. There was no lie to the UN about the attacks.
You have a very strange way of answering, "no," Ken.
22 Jan 2002 Calcuttaquote:
Heavily-armed gunmen have attacked the US Government's information centre near the American consulate in Calcutta, killing five policemen.
Indian police said the four men, draped in shawls, sped up to the American Centre building on two motorcycles at about O615 local time (0045GMT), refusing to stop at checkpoints and shooting at police guards who returned fire.
The article was posted just over 10 hours after the attack, and 2 groups had claimed they had carried out the attacks.
14 June 2002 Karachiquote:
A suicide attacker detonated a powerful car-bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, killing himself and at least ten others.
That PBS story was written less than 15 hours after the attack.
12 Oct 2002 Indonesia bombingquote:
President George Bush yesterday [Oct 13th] called on the international community to confront "this global menace, terrorism". Tony Blair said he was horrified by "this appalling terrorist act".
28 Feb 2003 Islamabad/Karachiquote:
At least two policemen have been killed in a gun attack outside the US consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi.
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"The suspect is not linked to al-Qaeda, but connected to some local Pakistani extremist group," a senior police official told Reuters news agency.
An intelligence official told the AFP news agency: "The policemen were hate-targets because they were protecting Americans."
Happened outside a consulate, but wasn't even targeting Americans.
12 May 2003 Riyadh, Saudi Arabiaquote:
Suicide bombings Monday night at three housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed at least 20 people -- including seven Americans, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Nine bombers also died. Government officials suspect the attacks were conducted by al Qaeda terrorists.
Suicide Bombers. Died in the blasts. Purported to be al Qaeda, who we were already engaged with.
30 July 2004 Tashkent, Uzbekistanquote:
he explosions, which occurred outside the buildings of both embassies in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, appeared to have been set off by suicide bombers, Reuters reported. Two Uzbeks were killed in the attacks.
A U.S. Embassy official said no Americans were injured as a result of the blast.
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The three blasts, which included one at the state prosecutor's office, took place as 15 suspected al-Qaida members stand trial in Tashkent for a series of violent attacks earlier this year that killed nearly 50 people. Uzbek officials have accused the men of trying to overthrow the government led by Islam Karimov.
Karimov, who runs the former Soviet republic with an iron fist, according to the AP, and who has been accused of abuses by human rights groups, has been trying to eliminate Islamic extremism in his country. During the 2001 U.S. war in Afghanistan, Karimov allowed the placement of U.S. military bases within his countries boundaries which border Afghanistan. He has been an ally of the United States since.
6 Dec 2004 Jeddah, Saudi Arabiaquote:
group of attackers stormed the American Consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jidda today, using explosives at the gates to breach the outer wall and enter the compound, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement. At least eight people were killed in the incident, in which guards and Saudi security forces confronted the group, according to the ministry and news agencies.
Three of the attackers were killed. Five non-American employees were killed, an American embassy spokesman, Carol Kalin, told Reuters. She declined to provide the nationality of those killed, but said they were members of the consulate staff.
Reuters reported that Saudi security officials said four of their men also died in the incident, which would bring the death toll to 12.
Two of the attackers were wounded and detained when they battled with Saudi security forces, the interior ministry said.
The ministry statement referred to the attackers as deviants, a term it has used in the past to describe militants and members of Al Qaeda. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
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In Washington, President Bush said that the attack showed that "terrorists are still on the move".
He was speaking to reporters at the end of a meeting with Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the interim president of Iraq, where elections scheduled for Jan. 30 have been foreshadowed by violence.
"They want us to leave Saudi Arabia, they want us to leave Iraq, they want us to grow timid and weary in the face of their willingness to kill randomly, kill innocent people," Mr. Bush said.
"That's why these elections in Iraq are very important," he said.
2 MArch 2006 Karachi, Pakistanquote:
A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan’s largest city, killing four people — including the diplomat — ahead of President Bush’s visit to Pakistan.
Bush condemned the attack near the U.S. Consulate and a luxury hotel in Karachi, and said “terrorists and killers” would not prevent him from going to Pakistan on the final leg of his tour of South Asia.
“We have lost at least one U.S. citizen in the bombing, a foreign service officer, and I send our country’s deepest condolences to that person’s loved ones and family,” Bush said at a news conference in neighboring India , without naming the diplomat.
12 Sep 2006 Damascus, Syriaquote:
U.S. officials praised Syrian security forces for thwarting Tuesday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus despite the usually tense relationship with the Middle Eastern country.
The Syrians killed three attackers and apprehended a suspect outside the embassy after a car exploded near the walls of the American compound, the Syrian Information Ministry said.
"I do think the Syrians reacted to the attack in a way that helped to secure our people, and we very much appreciate that," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said while visiting Canada.
12 Jan 2007 Athens, Greecequote:
An antitank grenade was fired into the heavily fortified American Embassy here just before dawn today. The building was empty, but the attack underscored deep anti-American sentiment here and revived fears of a new round of homegrown terror.
Greek officials said they doubted the attack was the work of foreign or Islamic terrorists, but rather that of regrouped extreme leftists aiming at a specific, symbolic target: a huge American seal, of a double-headed eagle against a blue background, affixed to the front of the boxy, modern embassy near downtown.
The round narrowly missed the seal, punching through a window a few feet above and landing in a bathroom on the embassy’s third story, where the ambassador’s office is located.
The damage was described as minimal. But Charles Ries, the American ambassador, said: “We treat it as a very serious attack. There can be no justification for such a senseless act of violence.”
18 Mar 2008 Sana'a, Yemenquote:
The American Embassy in Yemen was the target of a mortar attack Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said, contradicting a suggestion from the Yemeni government the attack targeted a school where 13 were injured.
"Our conversations in Yemen have led us to the conclusion that the attack was directed against our embassy," according to a statement released Tuesday evening. "Since this is an ongoing investigation, we are not going to talk about the specifics of the case."
Earlier, a source with knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Tuesday's mortar attack in the capital city of San'a -- but unauthorized to speak on the record -- told CNN there was a "clear and strong indication" the U.S. embassy was targeted.
"My strong belief is that there is almost no doubt this is an effort directed at the U.S. embassy," the source said.
9 July 2008 Istanbul, Turkeyquote:
Six people have died in a gun battle outside the US consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
The city's governor, Muammer Guler, said three policemen and three attacking gunmen were killed.
No injuries were reported to staff inside the consulate. The US ambassador to Turkey condemned it as "an obvious act of terrorism" aimed at the US.
17 Sep 2008 Sana'a, Yemenquote:
Militants attacked the U.S. embassy in Yemen Wednesday, assaulting the structure with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb. Officials said the attack killed at least 16 people, including six assailants.
Authorities told news agencies that no Americans were killed or injured in the assault. The coordinated attack prompted a firefight with security guards that raged for at least 10 minutes at the concrete barriers that circle the compound.
The dead included six attackers, six Yemeni guards and four civilians, the state news agency SABA reported, according to the Associated Press.
In one account of the assault, gunmen in a vehicle attacked a checkpoint outside the embassy around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday morning with RPGs and automatic weapons, Yemeni security officials told the AP.
During the attack, suicide bombers in a vehicle made it through an outer checkpoint and hit a second, inner ring of concrete blocks before detonating, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. Embassy said in a statement that the facility had been attacked by "armed terrorists," with several explosions "in the vicinity" of the main gate that killed an injured a number of guards and Yemeni citizens waiting to enter the embassy.
None of these attacks lasted hours. None of these attacks were blamed on something nebulous like a youtube video (or a cartoon, or a caricature, or anything like that). The only possibly exception would be the 18 Mar 2008 Sana'a, Yemen attack, which Yemeni authorities claimed the US Embassy wasn't the target, but that a teacher at a nearby girls' school was the intended target. But, our sources told us that the US Embassy was most likely the target.
One attack killed an ambassador, which was a car bomb as the ambassador was traveling.
Sorta difficult to scramble the jets to get anywhere in the limited times these attacks happened.
Well, there was that "at least 10 minute" gun battle...
Seriously, Ken. Equating any, or even all 13 combined, to the mess that occurred in Benghazi is ludicrous.
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), but if someone is going to base their criticism of Bush's military foray into Iraq on his not having the authority to do so, then that same criticism should be leveled at the Obama Administration. 
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