Following the African embassy bombings “on August 7, 1998, more and more Muslims especially had questioned the deaths of innocent black Africans, who outnumbered the American victims by almost twenty to one. Osama’s propaganda insisted that the Kenyans deserved to die because of their government’s long history of close relations with Israel.” – Jonathan Randal, […]
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8/7/1998
Pakistani immigration officials detained Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, leader of al Qaeda’s Mombassa cell, on August 7, 1998. “Under questioning by immigration, Odeh admitted his participation in the Nairobi [embassy bombing] plot. …Most important, though, he admitted to being a member of al Qaeda, under the leadership of bin Laden.” – John Miller, Michael Stone, and […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “twelve Americans and 238 Africans died when the U.S. embassy in [Nairobi] Kenya was ripped apart and in a near simultaneous, but less lethal truckbomb, attack against the Dar es Salaam embassy in neighboring Tanzania. Within hours, the Sudanese…arrested [the suspects] in a cheap downtown hotel noting their earlier unsuccessful attempt […]
8/7/1998
On August 7, 1998, “Bombs planted in the American embassies in Nairobi [Kenya] and Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] by Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network cause the deaths of 263 persons and injure more than 4,500.” – Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, Page 257 […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, the day before the Taliban entered Mazar [-i-Sharif, Afghanistan], al Qaeda carried out its first major terrorist attack, the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 67 […]
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 […]
8/7/1998
“It was August 7, 1998. …In Kenya, an Egyptian bomb-maker called ‘Saleh [Ali Saleh Nabhan]‘–one of [Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al-] Zawahiri’s men–oversaw the construction of two huge explosive devices. The first was made of two thousand pounds of TNT. …Two Saudis…drove the truck through downtown Nairobi toward the American Embassy. At the same […]
8/7/1998
“On August 7, 1998, the concussion of a mighty truck bomb blew out a high wall of windows in the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. …At almost the same moment, four hundred miles to the south in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, a bomb planted in a gasoline tanker exploded near the entrance […]
8/7/1998
“Our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in East Africa, were struck almost simultaneously on August 7, 1998. …Al Qaeda had now followed up a fatwa, or religious ruling, earlier in 1998 declaring war on the United States with an actual act of war.” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 181 […]
8/7/1998
“The realization that bin Laden had declared war on the United States became obvious to everyone at least by August 7, 1998, when the American embassies in East Africa were blown up. Once again, the CIA was caught totally by surprise. Because the agency had spent most of its time and money on its band […]