US ambassador has been caught up in many attacks

Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, has been caught up in a number of attacks over the course of his diplomatic career:

—Sept. 13, 2011: Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy as part of a series of attacks in Kabul, the Afghan capital. No Embassy staff members were killed or wounded, and it was not immediately clear if Crocker was in the building at the time.

—March 29, 2007: Multiple suicide bombers struck in predominantly Shiite markets in Baghdad and in a town north of the capital, killing at least 104 people and wounding scores on the same day that Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, was sworn in at …