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Embassy Bombings in East AfricaU.S. Case Against bin Laden in Embasy Blasts Seems to Rest on IdeasIn their war against Osama bin Laden, American officials portray him as the world's most dangerous terrorist. But reporters for The New York Times and the PBS program "Frontline," working in cooperation, have found him to be less a commander of terrorists than an inspiration for them.
Timeline
(August 8) Two massive bombs exploded minutes apart outside the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania late Friday morning, killing at least 80 people, eight of them American, in what U.S. officials said were coordinated terrorist attacks. • Bombing Toll Rises as Rescue Effort in Nairobi Intensifies
(August 10) American intelligence officers and law-enforcement personnel from around the world streamed into Nairobi Sunday to search for clues in the terrorist bombing that killed at least 190 people and wounded nearly 5,000.
(August 15) Like shock waves, the impact of the embassy bombing has spread from downtown Nairobi across the nation. At least 247 Kenyans died in the blast -- 20 for every American killed -- and each death diminished the lives of a large circle.
(August 16) Federal law-enforcement officials said Saturday that they had obtained information tentatively linking an associate of Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi-born businessman who has vowed to wage a holy war against the United States, to the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
(August 19) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities arrested two additional suspects in the bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, senior Pakistani officials said Tuesday. • U.S. Pressing Afghanistan to Expel Bombing Suspect • Video: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Tanzania
Federal authorities charged on Thursday that the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kenya last month was orchestrated by an Islamic extremist from the island nation of Comoros who reported directly to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile who is now the focus of the world-wide inquiry.
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