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Embassy terror changed national security spending

by Noel King
Aug 7, 2013
Fifteen years after the Al Qaeda bombings in East Africa, spending on embassy security has soared -- and not just there.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright looks  at damage from a bomb at the U.S. embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania where 10 people were killed and 72 injured from a bomb blast, at almost the same time as another bomb went off in Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998.
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U.S. embassies: Not just spies and visas

by Mark Garrison
Aug 5, 2013
More than a dozen U.S. embassies remain closed under terror fears, but what exactly will the closures mean?
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