List of US Diplomats Killed Abroad

(AP) - Some U.S. diplomats and officials who have been killed while working abroad:

_2008: American diplomat and humanitarian aid official, John Granville, shot to death in his car in Khartoum, Sudan.

_2006: David Foy, a facilities maintenance officer at the U.S. embassy in Karachi, Pakistan, killed by a suicide bomber slamming into the diplomat's car outside the U.S. consulate on the eve of President Bush's trip to the country.

_2004: Edward Seitz, an agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, killed when a rebel-fired rocket or mortar shell crashes into the trailer where he sleeps at an American base near the Baghdad airport.

_2002: Laurence Foley, U.S. Agency for International Development officer, gunned down in Amman, Jordan.

_2002: Barbara J. Green, an embassy worker in Pakistan, killed when a man hurled grenades into a church in Islamabad. She was in the process of becoming a full-time embassy employee.

_1998: 12 Americans killed in embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya.

_1995: Consulate workers Gary C. Durell, a communications technician, and Jacqueline K. Van Landingham, a secretary, killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi, Pakistan.

_1993: Freddie Woodruff, reported CIA officer, shot dead outside Tbilisi, Georgia, in what was perhaps a robbery attempt.

_1989: Army Col. James Rowe assassinated by the New People's Army in Manila, the Philippines.

_1988: Capt. William Nordeen, defense attache at embassy in Greece, killed by terror group November 17 in Athens.

_1988: Marine Corps Lt. Col. William R. Higgins kidnapped and murdered by Iranian-backed terrorists while serving with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

_1985: Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot kidnapped, tortured and executed under the orders of narcotrafficker Rafael Cero Quintero in Mexico.

_1984: William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, kidnapped and murdered by the Islamic Jihad.

_1983: 17 Americans killed by suicide truck-bomb attack on embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

_1983: Navy Capt. George Tsantos assassinated in 1983 by terror group November 17 in Greece.

_1979: Adolph Dubs, ambassador to Afghanistan, kidnapped by Islamic extremists and killed in gunfire exchange with Afghan security forces.

_1978: Francis E. Meloy Jr., ambassador to Lebanon, assassinated.

_1975: Richard Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, Greece, assassinated by the terror group November 17.

_1974: Rodger Davies, ambassador to Cyprus, assassinated in Nicosia.

_1973: Cleo Noel, ambassador to Sudan, assassinated at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum by Yasser Arafat's Black September group. Also killed was senior embassy officer George Curtis Moore.

_1970: USAID police adviser Dan Mitrione kidnapped in Montevideo, Uruguay, by the Tupamaros terrorist group; his body was found more than a month later.

_1968: Gordon Mein, ambassador to Guatemala, assassinated in Guatemala City by a rebel faction.

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Sources: U.S. Department of State, American Foreign Service Association and news articles.

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