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Family, gov't say NY teen killed in Yemen attack
Sep 18 2008, AP

The only American killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was an 18-year-old high school senior who had gone overseas for an arranged marriage to a Yemeni man, her family and the State Department said.

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