Al-Qaeda led attacks at US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam

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On the 7th of August, 1998, hundreds of people, mostly local citizens, were killed by simultaneous Al-Qaeda truck bombs at the US embassies in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.

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