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	1998 U.S. embassy bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
		Along with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the Embassy Bombing is one of the major anti-American terrorist attacks that preceded the September 11, 2001 attacks.
		Mohammed Atef, indicted on November 4, 1998 for his role in orchestrating the attacks, was later reported killed by U.S. bombs during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_American_embassy_bombings (664 words)

	80 killed in US embassy bombings
		The bombs exploded within five minutes of each other, first in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania where seven deaths have been reported, and then in the heart of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, while embassy workers were having their mid-morning coffee break.
		He is wanted for a car bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1995 that killed five Americans and two Indians and a lorry bomb explosion at a military base at Al Khobar on the Saudi Gulf coast that killed 19 American airmen a year later.
		The American ambassador in Nairobi, Patricia Bushnell, was among the injured.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/08/08/wbom08.html (994 words)

	1998 U.S. embassy bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), 224 people were killed and over 5000 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.
		Along with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the Embassy Bombing is one of the major anti-American terrorist attacks that preceded the September 11, 2001 attacks.
		Mohammed Atef, indicted on November 4, 1998 for his role in orchestrating the attacks, was later reported killed by U.S. bombs during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_American_embassy_bombings (2731 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.
		It is clear that his organization was behind the attacks on our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/nation_coupe0911.htm (1624 words)

	Embassy bombings spur security boost - The Washington Times: World
		Two former employees of the embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka — Acey R. Johnson and Long N. Lee — are in custody on charges of aiding the illegal immigration to the United States of foreigners, primarily from Vietnam and India, from 2000 to 2003.
		The embassy in Tanzania had been upgraded before it was bombed, the official added, accounting, in part, for the lower number of casualties there than in Kenya.
		But a visit to a U.S. embassy or consulate anywhere in the world today reveals what both Americans and foreigners describe as a fortress — a far cry from the welcoming buildings of the past, where millions had their first contact with the United States.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040405-011021-1794r.htm (1897 words)

	II Web: A Leaner, Meaner 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.
		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.
		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)

	Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia
		His group al-Qaida is suspected of having ties to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, and the attack on the American destroyer USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
		He is also wanted by the United States in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
		In 1998 he issued a fatwa declaring it the religious duty of all Muslims "to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military...
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osama_bin_Laden (1087 words)

	MODULE 3
		Those that survived repeated air attacks from American warplanes and assaults by Northern Alliance fighters were unfortunate to be captured and imprisoned.
		As such, Osama Bin Laden has called for all Muslims to “kill Americans everywhere”, that it was their duty to liberate the Muslim holy lands from their influence.
		Americans have been killed in pursuit of this goal.
	www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca /elearning/CanadaArmedForces/readings/Part2Intro/whoswho.htm (1900 words)

	Questions mount in Kenya, Tanzania bombings - US government, Israeli intelligence had advance warning
		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.
		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.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/aug1998/bomb-a13.shtml (1049 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.
		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.
		At the same time and unbeknownst to anyone in the embassy, two men pulled up to the rear guard shack of the embassy, which was manned by the local Kenyan security force.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/dickg/embassymarines1.html (2118 words)

	CNN - Investigation of embassy bombings tightens - August 10, 1998
		NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- As rescue crews combed through the rubble of the embassy bombing in Nairobi, investigators on Monday were searching for clues as to who was behind the simultaneous bombings that left about 200 people dead.
		The Washington Post on Monday quoted an unidentified U.S. Embassy official as saying the vehicle apparently containing the bomb in Nairobi first drove to the embassy's main entrance but was sent by guards to the rear, where the bomb exploded.
		The Nation also quoted an unidentified security man as saying he'd seen three people filming the embassy four days before the attack.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9808/10/embassy.bombings.01 (887 words)

	CivicMind™ International Justice Terrorism Terrorists on trial
		1998 - American Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania -
		A Tanzanian national, Rashid Salehe Hemed, 34, who had been charged and held in custody since the bombings, was released by the Tanzanian High Court in December 2004 for lack of evidence to convict him.
		He is in custody in Madrid in connection with the election-eve train bombings March 11, 2004.
	www.civicmind.com /intconv.htm (1095 words)

	CNN.com - Jury reminded of the victims of embassy bombings - May 9, 2001
		Fitzgerald said it was not only al-'Owhali's post-arrest statement to the FBI but also eyewitness testimony that placed al-'Owhali in the bomb truck throwing stun grenades at security guards to get the truck closer to the embassy in Kenya.
		He focused the jurors' attention on one victim as a symbol, Roselyn Wanjiku Mwangi, a Kenyan woman who had been trapped in the rubble of Uffundi house, a small office building next to the embassy that collapsed after the truck bomb exploded.
		Fitzgerald told the jury that Odeh, in his post-arrest statement, expressed no remorse for dead Americans and described the bombing as "a blunder" because most of the casualties were Kenyans.
	cnn.com /2001/LAW/05/09/embassy.bombings.02/index.html (1274 words)

	Topic Research
		The twin bombings occurred August 27, 1998, killing over 260 people, the vast majority of which were Kenyan.
		Khaled Al Fawwaz arrested by British authorities and is accused of conspiring with bin Laden in the bombings.
		Indeed, Osama bin Laden was indicted on 238 counts for plotting the embassy attacks.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /Projects/TDT2000/topics/completed-research/embassybombings.html (310 words)

	U.S. Embassy Bombings
		Primer on the Embassy Bombings and the U.S. Strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan
		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.
		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.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/newsfacts-sudanstrikes.html (298 words)

	Truckers to watch for terrorists
		Highway Watch, which began in 1998, is funded by a grant from the Federation of Motor Carrier Safety.
		John Willard, spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, said the organization recently finished spending a $275,000 grant from 2000 and received another grant of $500,000 for 2002.
		"In the embassies, they used trucks that looked like the water carriers, the same that were in the cities," he said.
	www.postgazette.com /nation/20020809truckers4.asp (687 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly International US favour at a price
		US intelligence officials believe he was behind the 1998 American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
		Analysts cite such attacks as proof that the Musharraf government itself is as committed to the war on terror and curbing Islamic militancy as the American and British governments.
		When police and American intelligence officials examined the computers and documents at his home, they found an astonishing amount of information.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/703/in1.htm (1116 words)

	CNN.com - US - U.S. official sees similarities between USS Cole blast and embassy attacks - October 22, 2000
		The United States has indicted former Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and he is on the FBI's list of the 10 most wanted suspected criminals.
		Ali Mohamed, a former U.S. Army sergeant, pleaded guilty Friday to helping plot the embassy bombings, saying he joined bin Laden and others in a holy war to kill Americans anywhere they could be found.
		Like the embassy bombings, the attack on the Cole was also well-planned, Clarke said.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/10/23/uss.cole.01 (1468 words)

	Embassy Bombings leave Harbor Family Shocked
		The Embassy bombings leave this Harbor family shocked.
		Many of the American and Kenyan victims are friends and co-workers of the Naults.
		She voiced many of the same ideas expressed by Secretary of State Madeline Albright this weekend, saying U.S. embassies cannot be fortresses.
	boothbayregister.maine.com /1998-08-13/embassy_bombings.html (330 words)

	Online NewsHour: African Embassy Bombings -- August 7, 1998
		In the case of Tanzania, it was an older embassy, security was improved on the perimeter, but the parking area is, as I understand, on that perimeter and, thus, a car bomb could get close enough to cause extensive damage.
		And, unfortunately, these embassies were not upgraded with the Diplomatic Security Act in 1985, where you moved standoff, because, frankly, if there had been more distance from the street to these buildings, you would not have had the death toll, you would not have had the destruction.
		I think it's important to note that this bombing was not put together in the last two or three days, I don't think.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/july-dec98/bomb_8-7a.html (2017 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 FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdullah_Ahmed_Abdullah (121 words)

	Anniversary of 1998 Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, August 7, 2002
		Our thoughts are with those American, Kenyan and Tanzanian citizens lost in the bombings, as well as their families.
		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.
		Today marks the four-year anniversary of the bombings of the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_08/alia/a2080702.htm (383 words)

	BBC News AMERICAS Ex US soldier admits embassy bombings
		The bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998, were part of an Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, against western targets by bin Laden, he said.
		A former US Army sergeant has admitted involvement in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa in which 224 people were killed, 12 of them Americans.
		He was among 17 people charged in connection with the simultaneous embassy bombings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_982000/982069.stm (379 words)

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		In the aftermath we are left to rebuild our sense of personal safety and national security even as we wage war against terrorism on a global scale.
		Osama bin Laden himself provided ample warning; in a January 1999 interview, for example, he said "hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God.
		The final report, published in January 2001, predicted that""a direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over the next quarter century" (USCNS, 2001).
	www.nae.edu /nae/bridgecom.nsf/BridgePrintView/CGOZ-58NLJY?OpenDocument (3118 words)

	embassy - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=embassy (211 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Pakistani Troops Going After Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man
		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.
		In 1998, he was the second of five signatories to Bin Laden's "fatwa" calling for attacks against US troops and civilians.
		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/printthread.php?t=4675 (673 words)

	Charges brought against former Green Beret - More connections between US agents and embassy bombings
		It is significant that although Ahmed clearly had advance knowledge of the bombing and could be an important witness, if not a suspect, the Clinton administration has made no attempt to extradite the Egyptian citizen from Tanzania, although similar actions have been taken against several other suspects in the embassy bombings.
		These reports pose the question whether the embassy bombings were the product of a US government operation gone awry.
		Several reports appearing in the American press reveal new connections between the August 7 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the activities of US intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/nov1998/keny-n07.shtml (927 words)

	FBI NY Press Release - November 4, 1998
		The Indictment specifically charges that the August 7' 1998, bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as actions taken in furtherance of this conspiracy to kill American nationals.
		Those five defendants are also charged with murdering all of the civilians killed in the embassy bombings.
		According to the Indictment, BIN LADEN and al Qaeda forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with representatives of the government of Iran, and its associated terrorist group Hezballah, with the goal of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/fbi/11041998.htm (702 words)

	BBC News AFRICA African press on 'day of infamy'
		Tanzania's The Guardian reported "shock, disbelief and horror reminiscent of the August 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi".
		Newspapers across the continent saw parallels with the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the racism conference in Durban, and feared that the crisis could escalate into a global conflict.
		The paper, which suggested that the acts needed the involvement of national intelligence agencies, concluded that "whatever the background of these actions turn out to be, such operations are tantamount to a world war".
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/africa/newsid_1542000/1542972.stm (902 words)

	1998 American embassy bombings - Wikipedia
		The two embassy bombings in East-Africa in 1998, which destroyd the embassies of the USA in Nairobi-Kenya and Dar Es Salaam-Tanzania and in which hundreds of mainly africans, but also several americans, were killed.
		This page was last modified 03:29, 27 September 2001.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998_American_embassy_bombings (77 words)

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