Nairobi - Kenya and Tanzania mark the 10th anniversary of devastating US embassy bombings on Thursday amid fresh embarrassment over Kenya's failure to arrest one of the main suspects.
Ceremonies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam will commemorate the victims of the August 7 1998 bombings, which killed a total of 224 people and injured some 5 000, almost all of them Africans.
Despite the passage of time, Kenya "remains potentially susceptible to attacks from terrorists in the region", according to the United States.
Ten years on, many of those responsible for the attacks, and the bombing of a hotel in Mombasa in 2002, "remain at large and continue to operate in the region", according to the website of the US embassy. more. http://www.news24.com/News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_2370597,00.html
Ceremonies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam will commemorate the victims of the August 7 1998 bombings, which killed a total of 224 people and injured some 5 000, almost all of them Africans.
Despite the passage of time, Kenya "remains potentially susceptible to attacks from terrorists in the region", according to the United States.
Ten years on, many of those responsible for the attacks, and the bombing of a hotel in Mombasa in 2002, "remain at large and continue to operate in the region", according to the website of the US embassy. more. http://www.news24.com/News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-11-1447_2370597,00.html
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