Kenya: Terrorism new Hot Spot

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Kenya: Terrorism new Hot Spot



Twin attacks target Israelis
Car bomb targets hotel, missiles miss-aim airliner
Eleven people, including two Israeli children, were killed today by
bombs at a hotel in Kenya frequented by Israeli tourists, officials
said.

In a simultaneous attack, an Israeli airliner taking off from the
Kenya tourist city of Mombasa was targeted but missed by a
missile.

The Kenyan ambassador to Israel said there was "no doubt" that
al Qaeda was responsible.


FULL STORY:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa...ael/index.html

P/S:
CNN reported live 20:11 hr Malaysian time that Hotel Paradise is owned by an Israeli.

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Was Osama bin Laden here in 1998 bombing?



Kenya's history of terrorism
Thursday, November 28, 2002 Posted: 7:52 PM HKT (1152 GMT)

MOMBASA, Kenya (CNN) -- The car bombing outside a hotel in the Kenyan tourist city of Mombasa comes four years after a terrorist attack on an embassy in the eastern African country.

A massive truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on August 7, 1998.

Simultaneously, another bomb went off outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people and injured thousands.

The United States brought four men accused of having links to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network brought to trial for the attacks. They were jailed for life without parole.

U.S. prosecutors indicted bin Laden in connection with the embassy bombings. Washington also blamed him and his al Qaeda group for the September 11 attacks on the United States last year.

For many Americans, the news of the embassy bombings was the first they had heard of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

Though bin Laden has never claimed responsibility for the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, he has supported the actions.


FULL STORY:
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/afric...ory/index.html