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On Homeland Security: FactCheck: No, Benghazi wasn't 1st deadly assault since 1979

Jeb Bush said that Benghazi was "the first deadly assault on a U.S. diplomat since 1979." Is that true? We checked and found that assertion to be entirely false. Following is the list of fatalities from such attacks just during the George W. Bush presidency, excluding many attacks on the US Embassy in Baghdad:

1/22/2002. US Consulate in Calcutta, India: 5 killed.
6/14/2002. US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: 12 killed.
2/28/2003. US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan: 2 killed.
5/12/2003. US Compound in Riyadh, Arabia: 36 killed (9 Americans).
7/30/2004. US Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: 2 killed.
12/6/2004. US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: 9 killed.
3/2/2006. US. Consulate Karachi, Pakistan (again): 4 killed (one Diplomat).
9/12/2006. US Embassy in Damascus, Syria: 4 killed.
3/18/2008. US Embassy in Sana'a, Yemen: 2 killed.
7/9/2008. US Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: 6 killed.
9/17/2008. US Embassy Sana'a, Yemen (again): 16 killed.

Source: OnTheIssues FactCheck on Benghazi Jul 2, 2015

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