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On the flip-side of the image of Canadian diplomats as canape-eating, speech-giving bureaucrats is a grittier reality: feeling like the sitting duck in the world's hotspots — and even in some of its quieter corners.
Canadian foreign service officers have over the decades been kidnapped, bombed, swept up in violent protests and even killed — risks that returned to sharp focus Wednesday with the death of four U.S. embassy officials in Libya, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens.
With the violence coming …
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