According to a report on NBC News on October 24, 2003: ” ‘Newly disclosed documents in the East Africa embassy bombings case show that U.S. intelligence was aware of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist cell in Kenya two years before the August 1998 bombings that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. As early as August 1996, the intelligence community bugged the Nairobi phones of bin Laden’s personal secretary, Wadih El-Hage, and others in the Kenyan capital, according to court records.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 367