1998 U.S. embassy bombings

In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks, linked to local members of the al Qaeda terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden, brought bin Laden and al Qaeda to international attention for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list.

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August 7 - 1998 - Car bomb - United States - Embassies - East Africa - Dar es Salaam - Tanzania - Nairobi - Kenya - Al Qaeda - Osama bin Laden - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Ten Most Wanted

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Along with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, the Embassy Bombing is one of the major anti-American terrorist attacks that preceded the September 11, 2001 attacks. The comparatively restrained response of the Clinton Administration, at the time embroiled in the Lewinsky scandal, which included the cruise missile strikes of Operation Infinite Reach and the arrest and prosecution of some of the perpetrators, has sometimes been cited as a factor in emboldening al Qaeda to undertake the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001 and also raised political debate in the United States about whether to respond to terrorism with a military or law enforcement paradigm.http://fletcher.tufts.edu/news/2002/january/terrorism.htm

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1993 - World Trade Center bombing - 1996 - Khobar Towers bombing - Saudi Arabia - 2000 - USS Cole - Yemen - September 11, 2001 attacks - Clinton Administration - Lewinsky scandal - Operation Infinite Reach - 2001 - Terrorism - Military - Law enforcement - Paradigm

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