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	Online NewsHour -- African Embassy Bombings
		Update: A jury sentences the second of four men convicted in the African embassy bombings to a life term without parole.
		Update: One of the men convicted of executing the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kenya is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
		Three experts discuss the conspiracy and murder convictions in the African embassy bombing trial.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/embassy_bombing (282 words)

	Pakistan: Man tied to '98 attacks is dead - Boston.com
		Pakistani forces have killed Moshin Musa Matawalli Atwah, wanted by the United States for the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, April 13, 2006.
		Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, was killed late Wednesday in a Pakistani military raid led by helicopter gunships on a hideout in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai, near the Afghan border, the minister said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
		U.S. authorities had posted a $5 million bounty for Atwah, who is accused of involvement in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 12 Americans and more than 200 Africans.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/04/13/pakistanis_say_al_qaida_terrorist_killed (751 words)

	Terrorism Update - The U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
		In front of the American Embassy in Pakistan, Islamic militants claiming to be graduates of a camp run by an Islamic group called Jamaat-I-Islami in Khost, Afghanistan, burned an effigy of President Clinton and called for the destruction of the United States.
		Worldwide, about a dozen American embassies were temporarily shut down or reduced their normal activities because of reported threats and security vulnerabilities.
		In the most serious threat to an American institution abroad since the East African Embassy bombings, the CIA foiled a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Kampala and Ugandan police have arrested 20 suspects on suspicion of involvement in the plot.
	www.adl.org /terror/focus/15_focus.asp (2287 words)

	Pakistan Arrests Two New Suspects in Embassy Blasts
		Odeh is a devotee of the Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden, a leading suspect in the embassy bombings who has vowed a holy war against the United States.
		On Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's trip to Africa to tour the shattered embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, senior officials said Tuesday that the United States was urging the fundamentalist government of Afghanistan to expel bin Laden, so that the United States could try to capture him.
		A spokesman at the American Embassy said that the Pakistani government had not notified the embassy of the latest arrests.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/081998africa-bombing.html (738 words)

	Before Bombings, Omens and Fears
		Bushnell, a career diplomat, had been fighting for months for a more secure embassy in the face of mounting terrorist threats and a warning that she was the target of an assassination plot.
		Embassy officials say they were not aware of the internal CIA dispute, and add that they assumed at the time that it was the Kenyans who had denied access to the suspects.
		Bushnell's increasingly insistent demands for a new embassy were so far out of step with the State Department's plans that officials at headquarters were beginning to see her as a nuisance who was obsessed by security, according to one official familiar with the matter.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/010999africa-bomb.html (3218 words)

	us embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania
		Twin bombings of us embassies in kenya and tanzania crumpled buildings and blew apart buses Friday, August 7, 1998, trapping people under piles of concrete and twisted steel that rescuers cleared with backhoes, torches and their bare hands.
		The twin bombings were the first major international terror attacks against the United States since a June 25, 1996, truck bomb exploded outside the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and injuring more than 500 Americans and Saudis.
		Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted on May 29, 2001 of charges in the nearly simultaneous 1998 of two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa that killed 224 people and buried thousands of others under piles of tangled metal and concrete.
	www.terrorism-victims.org /terrorists/us-embassy-bombings.html (676 words)

	II Web: A Leaner, Meaner Jihad
		From the bombings in Morocco, Indonesia and Turkey last year, to the more recent suicide attacks in Iraq and Pakistan on the Shiite holy day of Ashura, it is clear that since 9/11 we have misunderstood the nature of global jihad.
		It was only after the F.B.I. began investigating the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Africa that American prosecutors — and the rest of the world — began referring to Al Qaeda as a global terrorist organization.
		Turkish officials immediately attributed the bombings to Al Qaeda, although it quickly became clear that the explosives were probably made and detonated by Turkish groups claiming to represent Al Qaeda's aims.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/iisite/media/03-16-04-NYTimes-Atran.htm (1036 words)

	Khobar Towers--June 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The vulnerability assessment helped the wing leadership focus on five scenarios: a suicide car bombing; a bomb in a parked, abandoned car; a man-portable bomb carried into the compound and left there; a man-pack body charge worn by a suicide intruder; and finally, a package or letter bomb.
		In the aftermath of the bombing, Cohen would fault the wing commander for tolerating a siren system that he called "plainly inadequate." The fact is that Schwalier inherited the standard "Giant Voice" speaker and siren system that could alert the entire compound.
		The bomb that did the damage was not like the package bombs in Bahrain or the Riyadh car bomb, containing only a few hundred pounds of explosives.
	www.afa.org /magazine/june1998/0698khobar.asp (5379 words)

	Bombing Of US Embassies In Africa-MSGs
		Inside the embassy, people heard the explosion and reportedly got up to look out of their windows when at 10:40 am, a truck filled with explosives crashed into the rear wall of the embassy adjacent to the underground garage, and exploded.
		the embassy collapsed onto the chancery's emergency generator, spilling thousands of gallons of diesel fuel into the basement of the embassy.The diesel fuel ignited and smoke and fire were billowing throughout the embassy.
		Within four hours of the truck bomb, which damaged diplomatic properties and houses up to1000 meters away, the embassy was secure with MSGs maintaining 24 hour security on the building until the arrival of the FAST team.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/dickg/embassymarines1.html (2118 words)

	Embassy Bombers Head to Jail for Life
		The sentencing hearing began with five bombing victims taking the stand to talk of the loss, pain, endless medical treatment, and heartache that they, their families, and their friends continue to suffer as a result of the terrible crimes.
		Convicted of murdering 11 in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, K.K. Mohamed, 27, a Tanzanian, was characterized by his defense lawyers as a fool, pawn, and low-level worker for al Qaeda members.
		In a statement to the FBI after being arrested in South Africa a year after the bombing, Mohamed told how he purchased the truck used to transport bomb materials, rented the house that was used as the bomb factory, and helped grind the TNT used in the Dar es Salaam bomb.
	www.usembassy.it /file2001_10/alia/a1101911.htm (1785 words)

	Pakistan arrests 2 more in embassy bombings
		On a trip to Africa to tour the shattered embassies, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright signaled that the Taliban, the fundamentalist Muslim militia that controls most of Afghanistan and is eager for U.S. diplomatic recognition, has no hope for formal ties to the United States unless it expels bin Laden.
		Albright pledged to seek emergency funding from Congress next month to pay for re-establishing embassy operations in Tanzania and Kenya and to compensate families that "suffered irreparable harm." She did not specify whether all African victims would be included or suggest any amount, saying that was still being calculated.
		In her public appearances Tuesday, Albright struggled to end the perception among many Kenyans and Tanzanians that American officials were indifferent to the plight of all but the American citizens who were injured in the bombings.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/08/19/africa-bombing_2-0.html (985 words)

	Questions mount in Kenya, Tanzania bombings - US government, Israeli intelligence had advance warning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At least three Kenyan employees of the embassy are still missing, along with an unknown but likely much larger number of victims in the rubble of the Ufundi House, next door to the embassy.
		Several hundred FBI and American police bomb site investigators have flooded Nairobi, cordoning off the area around the embassy and beginning efforts to determine the type of explosive used in the huge blast, as well as identifying the vehicle, believed to be a pickup truck, which delivered it.
		Such questions are not even considered in the American media discussion of the East African bombings, in which major newspapers and television networks are vying to supply one or another Middle East nation as a potential target for US military retaliation.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/aug1998/bomb-a13.shtml (1049 words)

	Page 3 - Unholywars - Terrorism, voilence, intolerance, fanaticism, Islamic fundamentalism ruling Asia and rest of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was titled “Holocaust of the Americans in the land of Khorasan, the Islamic emirate: Capture of an American post, Arghandab.” Khorasan refers to Afghanistan.
		The suspects of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are among them in the village.
		American taxpayers money and young men and women fighting a increasingly lost cause in Iraq is at stake in the run up to the election.
	www.unholywars.org /page/3 (6164 words)

	CNN - Death toll rises in embassy bombings; 'Rose' falls silent overnight - August 11, 1998
		In all, the near-simultaneous bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, claimed more than 214 lives and injured nearly 5,000.
		The bombing in Nairobi was the deadliest attack ever on a U.S. Embassy.
		The 12th American victim, who was married to a Kenyan, will be buried in her adopted homeland.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9808/11/embassy.bombings.01/index.html (1172 words)

	NucNews - November 23, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		American troops, part of the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo, are stationed on the boundary of eastern Kosovo, and their job is to prevent the movement of weapons and guerrillas across the boundary.
		American officials have said they believe the operation was carried out by a network of small cells of two or three people, probably from one or more anti-American Islamist organizations, including the Islamic Jihad, Egypt's al-Gamaa al-Islamiya and bin Laden's followers.
		According to Yemeni officials, the effort to link the embassy bombings with the attack on the Cole hinges on matching the blood tests taken from Yemeni relatives of the suspected Cole attackers with samples of tissue and flesh found on the Cole after the bombing.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0011nn/001123nn.htm (12427 words)

	CNN.com - Deliberations in bombings trial head for 7th day - May 17, 2001
		The claims pledged "to pursue American forces" and "strike Americans everywhere" until various conditions were met, chief among them the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest cities.
		Gaudin also said al-'Owhali explained the reasons the embassy in Kenya was picked: It was an easy target with a large American staff, including a female ambassador whose death would generate more publicity.
		The U.S. ambassador to Kenya in 1998, Prudence Bushnell, was in the building next door to the embassy when the explosion occurred and suffered only minor injuries.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/05/17/embassy.bombings.01/index.html (713 words)

	U.S. Embassy Bombings
		On Aug. 7, 1998, the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were bombed by terrorists, leaving 258 people dead and more than 5,000 injured.
		In response, the U.S. launched cruise missiles on Aug. 20, 1998, striking a terrorism training complex in Afghanistan and destroying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum, Sudan, that reportedly produced nerve gas.
		Four men, believed to be followers of Osama bin Laden, were convicted on May 29, 2001, for their roles in the bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/newsfacts-sudanstrikes.html (302 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Jay Coupe served as Chief of Staff for the Joint Commission on the 1998 Africa American Embassy bombings under the command of Admiral William J. Crowe (USN-Ret.).
		The priority given to the protection of our American and foreign national embassy employees abroad was seriously lacking and more than 85% of our overseas embassies did not meet the basic security standards that had been in place for 15 years.
		That is a characteristic of Middle Eastern terrorism organizations, as it was in the bombing of the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/nation_coupe0911.htm (1624 words)

	1998 United States embassy bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), 257 people were killed and over 4,000 wounded in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
		On June 22, 2006, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer announced the US was seeking the assistance of the Islamic Courts Union in the apprehension of suspects who carried out attacks against its East African embassies in 1998 and an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in 2002.
		Report of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on August 7, 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_American_embassy_bombings (2653 words)

	cbs4boston.com - Pakistani Forces Kill al Qaeda Terrorist
		Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, was killed late Wednesday in a Pakistani military raid led by helicopter gunships, on a hideout in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai, near the Afghan border, the minister said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
		The operation was launched late Wednesday in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai after the Pakistani military received information that Atwah might have been hiding there, two senior counterterrorism officials said on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue.
		U.S. authorities had posted a $5 million bounty for Atwah, who is accused of involvement in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 12 Americans and more than 200 Africans.
	cbs4boston.com /national/topstories_story_103132750.html (720 words)

	United States bombing of other countries: The master list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the United States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the neighborhoods that surrounded them.
		There appears to be something about launching bombs or missiles from afar onto cities and people that appeals to American military and political leaders.
		It would apply less to "conventional" bombs, but even with those there are unexploded bombs lying around, and the danger of damaged buildings later collapsing.
	members.aol.com /superogue/bomb.htm (969 words)

	Pakistani Troops Going After Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man - Wired New York Forum
		In 1998, he was the second of five signatories to Bin Laden's "fatwa" calling for attacks against US troops and civilians.
		He has been indicted in the US for his role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, and was sentenced to death in Egypt in absentia for his activities with the Islamic Jihad group in the 1990s.
		On Thursday two American soldiers were killed and two wounded in a clash in the central province of Oruzgan, south of Kabul.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=25015 (692 words)

	News from the USIA Washington File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These bombings are a stark reminder of the threat to U.S. personnel posed by terrorists whose only means of attacking America is through such cowardly acts.
		But, as the bombings show, we will never be able to eliminate all the risks that our troops and diplomats face when they serve our country overseas.
		The loss of one American serviceman or diplomat to such acts is one too many.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1998/08/98080701_ppo.html (160 words)

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		Bushnell, a career diplomat, had been fighting for months for a more secure embassy in the face of mounting terrorist threats and a warning that she was the target of the assassination plot.
		Mustafa Mahmoud Said Ahmed, and Egyptian, walked into the embassy and told CIA officers he knew of a group that was planning to detonate a bomb-laden truck inside the diplomats underground parking garage.
		Ahmed is now being held in jail in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of the embassy there.
	storm.prohosting.com /farsight/EmbassyBombings.htm (711 words)

	Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and Nairobi Kenya.
		He had fled Nairobi on August 6, 1998 for Karachi, Pakistan and has since disappeared.
		On October 10, 2001, Abdullah was placed on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by President George W. Bush.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdullah_Ahmed_Abdullah (166 words)

	Anniversary of 1998 Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
		Our thoughts are with those American, Kenyan and Tanzanian citizens lost in the bombings, as well as their families.
		The American flag at all Department of State facilities will be lowered to half-mast in memory of those killed and injured in the attacks.
		The East Africa bombings were perpetrated by Al-Qaida terrorists seeking to destroy American lives and America’s commitments to our friends and allies around the world.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2002/12508.htm (291 words)

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