8/7/1998

“On August 7, 1998, trucks driven by Al Qaeda operatives rumbled through the midmorning traffic and crashed past security barriers at American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The bomb-laden trucks exploded in the embassy compounds, killing 224 people, injuring thousands, most of them Africans.”

 – Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Page 177