• Adolph Dubs (August 4, 1920 – February 14, 1979), also known as Spike Dubs, was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan...
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    SEALs. Stevens is the first U.S. ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in 1979. Senior intelligence officials later acknowledged...
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  • Dubs is the surname of: Adolph Dubs (1920–1979), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs (born 1932), British politician and former Member...
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  • reputation in Washington was tarnished by his role in the assassination of Adolph Dubs. Some Afghans, especially those from minority ethnic groups such as the...
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  • the kidnapping and murder of the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, on February 14, 1979, at the Kabul Hotel is sometimes attributed to...
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    1942, as the first envoy solely accredited to Afghanistan. Ambassador Adolph Dubs was assassinated in a botched kidnapping attempt in 1979. For the next...
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  • have more children. However, no suspects have ever been identified. Adolph Dubs (58), then U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, who had been kidnapped by...
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    Stevens was the first United States ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1979. On September 10, 2012, at...
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    Orlando, Florida. Raphel was also survived by his third wife, Nancy. Adolph Dubs, the previous US ambassador to die in the line of duty J. Christopher...
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    June 16, 1976 attack by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Adolph Dubs Afghanistan Kabul  Afghanistan February 14, 1979 attack by Settam-e-Melli...
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    and heightened cold war tensions, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, was kidnapped on his way to work at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on 14...
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  • millions” of dollars that provided aid to terrorists in the region. Adolph Dubs "U.S. adviser killed in Afghan-led military operation". Corinne Lestch...
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    14, 1969 Jacob D. Beam March 14, 1969 April 18, 1969 January 24, 1973 Adolph Dubs served as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim between January 1973 and March...
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  • Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police...
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    March 21, 2002 – August 1, 2004 President George W. Bush Preceded by Adolph Dubs Succeeded by Zalmay Khalilzad United States Ambassador to Tajikistan...
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    inaugurated by President Hamid Karzai and Aga Khan IV on November 8, 2005. Adolph Dubs, United States ambassador to Afghanistan, was killed at the hotel in...
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    Marxists, and those who signed the armistice that ended the fighting—later dubbed the "November criminals". The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany...
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    Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. February...
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    against the PDPA government. In 1979, a Settam-e-Melli group killed Adolph Dubs, the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan. Ideologically Settam-e-Melli...
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    give permission for the attack that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1979. In 1982, Pieczenik was mentioned in an...
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  • an interest." May 31 – President Carter announces the nomination of Adolph Dubs for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States...
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  • Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Preceded by Robert G. Neumann Succeeded by Adolph Dubs 4th Executive Secretary of the Department of State In office August 10...
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  • Ballistic vest provided by the KGB to Afghan units tasked with rescuing Adolph Dubs. 6b2 and ZHZL-74 body armor used by Sarandoy special purpose units. Ushanka...
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    Carl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow...
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  • government in Kabul and is believed to be responsible for the murder of Adolph Dubs. The Shalleh-ye Javiyd, a Maoist political party founded in the 1960s...
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  • President of Afghanistan Killed in the Saur Revolution 14 February 1979 Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan Abducted and killed by an undetermined...
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  • (First Deputy Chairman of the State Council of Bulgaria)  United States Adolph Dubs (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State) Charles H. Percy (Senator from...
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  • Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police...
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  • buildings, grounds, and naval vessels of the federal government in honor of Adolph Dubs. February 14 – President Carter and Mexican president José López Portillo...
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