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...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...
...Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Dar es Salaam, Scott MacLeod/Paris, Clive Mutiso/Nairobi and Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington
Nearly 450 miles away in Tanzania, at almost exactly the same time, a vehicle drives into the sunny grounds of the U.S. embassy in a residential quarter of Dar es Salaam and explodes, wrecking the entrance, blowing off parts of the building's right side and setting cars ablaze. Seven Tanzanians are killed, and 72 hurt...
...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...
...While the U.S. continues the hunt for the African embassy bombers, Madeleine Albright takes over as the public face of the Administration, making show-of-support stops in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi...