In case you haven't seen this. Regarding Republican politicization of Benghazi...

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8. There are others as well...

Some mentioned here occurred in other parts of the world besides the middle east. One during Clinton's time in office. And another in Pakistan in 2010.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/09/13/us.embassy.attacks/index.html

I would add the recent bomb blast near the American Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, which is kind of personal for me... I lived through some harrowing times in Ankara, Turkey as a kid when there was a lot of terrorist attacks and bombings against American targets then by leftist groups that were likely aligned with the Red Brigades of the time, much like the one that recently bombed the American Embassy in Ankara.

Read this Rand Report that talks about what went on around 1971 which even featured a Turkish military coup and martial law then... If you read the part on page 28 and further, it describes in detail the events around four American airmen that were kidnapped and very luckily escaped their captors. This part reads like a spy novel. One of those airmen was my 7th grade teacher's boyfriend at the time. I still wonder what might have happened in my life had they not escaped, and she'd perhaps left teaching then, and not have been the inspiration for much of what I've done with my life today. We tend to forget a lot of things that don't serve certain well funded groups' politics these days.

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R2105.pdf