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1998 United States embassy bombings

The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.[1]

1998 United States embassy bombings

Nairobi, Kenya
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

01°17′21″S 36°49′36″E / 1.28917°S 36.82667°E / -1.28917; 36.82667 and 06°47′21″S 39°16′46″E / 6.78917°S 39.27944°E / -6.78917; 39.27944

August 7, 1998 (1998-08-07)
10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. EAT (UTC+3)

United States embassies

Truck bombs

TNT, ammonium nitrate, pistol, stun grenade

224 (213 in Nairobi, 11 in Dar es Salaam)

4,000+

al-Qaeda
Egyptian Islamic Jihad

Revenge for the extradition and alleged torture of Egyptian Islamic Jihad members

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were credited with being the masterminds behind the bombings.[2][3][4]

List of terrorist incidents in 1998

List of Islamist terrorist attacks

Terrorism in Kenya

1998 World Cup terror plot

Rewards for Justice – Most Wanted Terrorists

Transcripts of Sentencing Phase of Embassy Bombers Trial

Primer on the attacks

U.S. District Court for DC finds "direct assistance" from Tehran, Sudan and Hezbollah in bombing

Oral History with Ambassador Prudence Bushnell to the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on the embassy bombings