On August 7, 1998, the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya were bombed by terrorists associated with al-Qaeda. More than 200 people were killed and at least 4,000 were injured, most of these local Africans who either worked at the embassies or were just unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity at the time. To many in the Foreign Service, 9/11 was not the wake-up call. Our wake-up call had already occured three years earlier.
Read more about the events and the memorials planned for today here.
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August 7, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Digger
I have linked to you here: http://lifeafterjerusalem.blogspot.com/2008/08/honoring-those-lost.html
August 7, 2008 at 8:00 pm
patrick ngaira
WHEN the US embassy was bombed the then us government was very fast in condeming the so called lack of security for its americans in kenya forgetting that the bulk of the dead and wounded were kenyans who knew nothing about OSAMA bin laden…THEY FORGOT THAT NO one country is immune to a determined suicidal mad man who is prepared to kill himself and others to achieve an illussion until 911 came to US soil…three years later……kenyans paid the ultimate price for being a freedom loving country that has allways been close to the west…..yet kenya gets very little positive press on the issue and only when AMERICAN interest are at stake…