1998 United States embassy bombings

On August 7 , 1998 , the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam , Tanzania and Nairobi , Kenya , were rocked by two nearly simultaneous explosions. Investigations revealed that this destruction was the result of two truck bomb attacks and that the bombs had been planted in vehicles adjacent to the U.S. embassies. Their explosions had been planned to occur at precisely the same time (at 10:45 a.m. local time and 3:45 a.m. Washington time) and to create chaos. As was soon discovered, the embassy bombings were a terrorist attack: one with heavy consequences. Not only were the embassies heavily dammaged, but there was a high number of casualties. The death toll was 213 in Nairobi and a dozen in Dar es Salaam. In Kenya an estimated 4000 were injured and, in Tanzania, there were 85 wounded. Almost all of the victims were African civilians, although several US diplomats were among their numbers. Bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi The embassy in Kenya after the bombing The attacks were linked to local members of the al Qaeda terrorist network, headed by Osama bin Laden . It was this terrorist incident that first brought bin Laden and al Qaeda to international notoriety, and led to the FBI 's placing him on the agency's Ten Most Wanted List. While the attacks were aimed at American embassies, the vast majority of the victims were Africans: 32 Kenyans and twelve Americans were killed (in Nairobi) and eight Tanzanian Embassy employees were killed. The remainder of the dead were visitors, passers-by, or people in neighboring buildings: the Nairobi embassy lay in a busy downtown location, while the embassy in Dar es Salaam was further from the city center. In response to these bombings, on August 20 1998 , U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan (see Operation Infinite Reach ). Investigations into the embassy bombings were conducted by the FBI and Kenyan and Tanzanian authorities. A list of suspects was drawn up and several men were charged with complicity in the bombings. In an event that angered many involved in the investigation, a court in Taliban -controlled Afghanistan declared on November 20 1998 that Osama bin Laden was "a man without a sin" in regard to the bombing.

Aftermath at the Nairobi embassy. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998) hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the major East African cities of Dar es Salaam , Tanzania and Nairobi , Kenya . The attacks, linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to American attention for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.

Attacks on the US Embassy The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 200 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi , Kenya . The attacks, which were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad , brought Osama bin Laden , Ayman al-Zawahiri , and their terrorist organization, al-Qaeda , to the attention of the U.S. public for the first time, and resulted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placing bin Laden on its ten most-wanted fugitives list. The FBI also connected the attack to Azerbaijan , as 60 calls were placed via satellite phone by bin Laden to associates in the country's capital Baku . "Читать онлайн "The Black Banners" автора Soufan Ali H. - RuLit - Страница 83" .

Attacks on US Embassies in Africa The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania and the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi , Kenya . Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were credited with being the masterminds behind the bombings.

Attacks on US embassies in Africa The 1998 United States embassy bombings or sometimes known as the 1998 Nairobi embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi , Kenya. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were deemed responsible with planning and orchestrating the bombings. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).