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The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in the East African cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia.

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  • 1998 United States embassy bombings
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  • The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in the East African cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia.
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Date
  • 1998-08-07(xsd:date)
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  • 200(xsd:integer)
Type
  • Truck bombs
Caption
  • Aftermath at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi
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  • and
Title
  • 1998(xsd:integer)
Weapons
  • TNT, ammonium nitrate, pistol, stun grenade
Image size
  • 200(xsd:integer)
Injuries
  • More than 4,000
Fatalities
  • 224(xsd:integer)
perpetrators
  • al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad
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Target
Time
  • 10(xsd:integer)
perps
  • Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and others
Location
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
abstract
  • The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in the East African cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia. The attacks were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their terrorist organization al-Qaeda, to the attention of the American 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 regarding the strike were placed via satellite phone by bin Laden to associates in the country's capital Baku. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was credited for being the mastermind behind the bombings.
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