The Haqqanis have been blamed for high-profile attacks in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan, including the bombing of the Indian Embassy in 2008, which killed 54 people.
Several other attacks on targets described in the notes were carried out in 1976, including the bombing of the Guyanese Embassy in Trinidad.
WASHINGTON -- Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, including the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Africa's most populous nation this summer, is a growing threat.
Washington is not required to compensate unintended victims, but it has done so at times, including after the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and the destruction of an Iranian airliner in 1988.
Following months of militancy in Libya, including the bombing of a luxury hotel in Tripoli and the mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts, IS militants are now also claiming responsibility for the series of suicide bombings that took place in Benghazi on Tuesday.
Many Pakistanis, including representatives of political parties in the government coalition, say they believe the increase in suicide attacks, including the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Sept. 20, is in retaliation for the American strikes.
Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist extremist group mainly known for its banditry in the south, has been blamed for several of the more serious terrorist attacks in the Philippines in recent years, including the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that caused a fire that killed 116 people.
CIA assessments noted a number of inadvertent chemical releases following U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, including the bombing of Al Muthanna -- Saddam Hussein's primary chemical production facility -- which discharged nerve agents and mustard gas.
In 1980, he was expelled from the UK and, for 15 years, he was head of Libyan foreign intelligence – including in the period of the Lockerbie bombing.
In previous tragedies, including the bombing of a Moscow subway train in February, Mr. Putin and his aides have been quick to blame Chechnya's separatists, often while providing little evidence in public.
