Event

U.S. embassy bombings, August 1998

Bombs at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on 7 August 1998.

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Osama bin Laden suspicion fell on him at once; the Commission says the evidence fixed responsibility on him and his associates According to National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Primary record 1
Al Qaeda blamed for bombings that killed 12 Americans and 201 others in Nairobi and 11 more people in Dar es Salaam According to National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Primary record 1

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Proof 1 source

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004. Primary record
the yearlong monitoring of al Qaeda’s cell in Nairobi, soon firmly fixed responsibility on him and his associates.
The attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi destroyed the embassy and killed 12 Americans and 201 others, almost all Kenyans.
The attack on the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam killed 11 more people, none of them Americans.

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