August 7, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-08-07) 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. EAT (UTC+3)
Target
United States embassies
Attack type
Truck bombs
Weapons
TNT, ammonium nitrate, pistol, stun grenade
Deaths
224 (213 in Nairobi, 11 in Dar es Salaam)
Injured
4,000+
Perpetrators
al-Qaeda Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Motive
Revenge for the extradition and alleged torture of Egyptian Islamic Jihad members
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al-Qaeda attacks
Aden hotels
WTC bombing
US embassies
USS Cole
9/11
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Faylaka Island
Bali (1st)
Mombasa
Riyadh
Casablanca
Marriott Hotel
Istanbul
Madrid
Khobar
Amman
Qahtaniya
Islamabad
Camp Chapman
In Amenas
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two Capital East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were credited with being the masterminds behind the bombings.[2][3][4]
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