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...together only a general idea of what happened at 10:35 that Friday morning in Nairobi. The most intriguing information has come from Kenyan guards who work for the private, California-based United International Investigative Services, hired to provide security in the perimeter areas of the embassy. Benson Okuku Bwaku, a 33-year-old manning the outer barrier at the building's rear entrance, has told the FBI and a number of newspapers how he encountered one of the bombers face to face...
...Bwaku was checking vehicles as they approached the metal bar that blocked entry to the back parking lot and the gated ramp down into the embassy's underground garage. Suddenly a truck he identified as a 3.5-ton Mitsubishi Canter sped into the access road leading to the barrier, only to be halted by a car exiting from the other direction. Suspicious, said Bwaku, of the truck's "terrible speed," he lowered the barrier. A man in a plaid shirt and baggy pants jumped out from the passenger side and marched toward him. "Open the gate," he demanded, and when...
...threw the grenade at Bwaku, the guard ducked, then heard a sharp explosion behind him. He fled around the side of the embassy, shouting into his walkie-talkie: "Base! Base! Terrorism! Terrorism!" But nobody heard him on the busy channel. Back at the gates, guard Joash Okindo managed to lock the heavy steel doors over the ramp to the embassy garage as the attacker hurled another grenade in his direction. Nanoseconds later, Bwaku heard the ferocious explosion of a bomb that knocked him off his feet but left him miraculously alive. Later, Bwaku's American boss at United International confirmed...
During two days of questioning, Bwaku told the FBI he saw the attacker long enough to describe him in detail: a shortish man, neither black nor white, with burning eyes, a long nose, straight black hair and a mustache. FBI artists have sketched the face and will now try to find other witnesses who might have seen the same likeness...
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