Friday, August 8, 2008

Embassy blasts painfully recalled


NAIROBI, Kenya – Douglas Sidialo woke up in a hospital 10 years ago, devastated to find he had been blinded after al-Qaida bombed American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
His thoughts immediately turned to revenge on Osama bin Laden.
“I could have skinned him alive,” said Sidialo, who was among hundreds marking th moe 10-year anniversary Thursday of the bombings that killed more than 200 people and wounded 5,000.
The bombings on Aug. 7, 1998, were the first major al-Qaida attacks on U.S. targets. The alleged mastermind, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, has been on the run for years; he escaped a police raid last weekend more..http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/NEWS04/808080371

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