Did anything happen in those countries during that time?
I don't know, but aren't they terrorist breeding grounds? I just posted this above, but a friend of mine, a very experience special ops guy was deployed this week and is leaving tomorrow to Africa. He can't even tell us specifically where he's going. No email or mail or phone calls. Scary stuff. I'll do some checking about terrorist activity in those countries.
I believe the Embassy bombings occurred in that time period.
Where does al-Qaeda operate? We don’t know if it has a headquarters anymore. From 1991 to 1996, al-Qaeda worked out of Sudan. From 1996 until the collapse of the Taliban in 2001, al-Qaeda operated out of Afghanistan and maintained its training camps there. U.S. intelligence officials now think al-Qaeda’s senior leadership is trying to regroup in lawless tribal regions just inside Pakistan, near the Afghan border, or inside Pakistani cities. Al-Qaeda has autonomous underground cells in some 100 countries, including the United States, officials say. Law enforcement has broken up al-Qaeda cells in the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Albania, Uganda, and elsewhere.
I read previously that the Kenya embassy bombing was in 1998 and that the Kenyan city in which it occurred is right next door to one of those countries. But I didn't follow up that information at the time to check it out.
Did anyone else?
OH ICK, Look what is the first thing that pops.
"Clinton faces diplomatic challenge in Uganda
Clinton in Ghana Monday
Speech in Ghana draws enthusiastic response
March 24, 1998
A warm welcome in Ghana
Ghana's leader: When people flourish, so do nations Crowd rushes Clinton KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) -- U.S. President Clinton arrived Tuesday in Uganda, his second stop on an unprecedented 12-day, six-country tour of Africa. After a warm welcome in Ghana, Clinton's two days in Uganda could present the most delicate diplomatic challenges of the trip.
Clinton is expected to hail Uganda's recent economic recovery, while nudging President Yoweri Museveni to open up his country's "no-party" political system.
During his stay in Uganda, Clinton is expected to make a brief visit to neighboring Rwanda to pay tribute to the estimated 800,000 victims of the 1994 genocide, when Tutsis and their allies were slaughtered by Hutu extremists."