"I spoke this morning with our fallen foreign service officer's mother and father and offered what little comfort I can for their immeasurable loss, " Kerry said in a statement.

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The immeasurable side effect of all this is perhaps the most insidious of them all: a loss of confidence in financial institutions.

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