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...Democratic Republic of Congo. In Kenya, CIA and embassy security officers believed the biggest threat to Americans was common crime. But the risk of terror lurked below the surface. Nairobi had become a transit stop for Iranian and Sudanese intelligence agents. Along the country's Indian Ocean coast were Kenyan veterans of the Afghan war that bin Laden agents had been recruiting...
...August 1997 the CIA had identified a bin Laden cell operating in Nairobi. The agency believed it was headed by Wadih el Hage, a Lebanese who held American citizenship and who, according to court documents, once served as bin Laden's personal secretary. Washington sent a secret request to Kenyan authorities in Nairobi: roust Wadih el Hage. For several weeks Kenyan police, sometimes accompanied by visiting FBI agents, began paying visits to el Hage's Nairobi home, searching its rooms, confiscating computer disks and darkly warning him that he'd face more hassling if he remained in the country...
Holiday shoppers replaced stressed out law students as vendors from around the Boston area sold products ranging from Kenyan dolls to Tibetan curry...
Only a strong person would defy the iron regime of Kenya's President Moi, and Maathai, 58, fits the bill. An anatomy professor at the University of Nairobi and the first Kenyan woman to receive a Ph.D., she founded the women's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 7 million trees in Kenya and inspired similar efforts around the globe. In 1989 her protests forced Moi to abandon a personal plan to erect a 62-story office tower in a Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called...
...though, investigators have pieced 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...