18 MAJOR
TERRORIST ATTACKS IN KENYA SINCE 1998
1. August 7, 1998 : A car bomb
attack outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, killing 213 people and injures
around 5,000 . Most
victims are pedestrians and employees of neighboring buildings . Forty-
four people , including 12 Americans , were killed in the embassy . An almost
simultaneous explosion of a tanker truck loaded with explosives in front of the
U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , kills 11 and injures 70 , all
pedestrians . The Al- Qaeda takes responsibility for two attacks .