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...fellow African, I sympathize with the families of all those who were killed or injured in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassy blasts [WORLD, Aug. 17]. In some countries, the U.S. embassy is in a strategically secure location, but in Kenya it is in a densely populated residential waterfront area where the neighboring buildings are other embassies and elementary schools. It's time the U.S. government reviewed security measures for its buildings and reassessed their location to protect the people who live or work near these embassies. And international terrorists need to be watched more closely than ever...
Think of what has happened in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Omagh, Northern Ireland, whenever you read of free-world democratic governments urging Israel to give up its security. Terrorism isn't just a remote Middle East phenomenon, and it will not fade away unless all governments understand the real danger and take appropriate action. AMNON KARIV Raanana, Israel...
...investigation is even less far along in Dar es Salaam, where the FBI and Tanzanian authorities have reconstructed only the vaguest outline of the attack. The solid, three-story, white stone embassy, originally housing the Israeli mission and taken over by the U.S. in 1980, is surrounded by a 100-ft. stone and steel perimeter fence, approached through two gates. A team of local guards from a private firm called Ultimate Security Ltd. patrolled the entry from the first perimeter gate to the Marine post in the embassy door, as well as the parking areas inside and outside the compound...
...matter how long it takes or where it takes us, we will pursue terrorists until the cases are solved and justice is done." So declared President Clinton the day after the car bombing of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam...
...shot up the Rome and Vienna airports--have never been caught or punished. Countries long deemed the fountainheads of terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan, have never felt the sting of U.S. retaliation. Even so, as the Administration dispatched its teams of investigators to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Berger vowed that the U.S. would succeed. Said he: "Our strongest weapon is our persistence and our determination...