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...time bin Laden had moved his operations to Sudan (he would later be forced to shift back to Afghanistan), that he started to target Americans. To all but insiders, he first became notorious in 1998, when al-Qaeda operatives exploded truck bombs at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 12 Americans and hundreds of locals. Since then there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks linked to al-Qaeda--some successful, some not--on American targets and those of U.S. allies around the world...
...world apart and far from the Islamic heartlands: the Philippines and Britain. It was in Manila, that most Catholic of cities, that Mohammed Sadeek Odeh found his vocation. Sentenced to life imprisonment on Oct. 18 for his part in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Odeh seemed to have lived the predictable life of an al-Qaeda operative--he was born to exiled Palestinians in Saudi Arabia and grew up in Jordan. Yet he turned to radical Islam while studying engineering in the Philippines. It was there that Odeh first saw and heard videos...
ATTACK AUG. 7, 1998 DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA & NAIROBI, KENYA Truck bombs hit U.S. embassies in both cities, killing 224, including 12 Americans. Bin Laden and 20 others were later indicted; four received life sentences...
...world. In 1995 his suicide bombers destroyed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan, where 15 died and 60 more were injured. All the while, al-Zawahiri was laying the groundwork for the East African terrorist operation that would drive truck bombs into the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing 224 people and injuring thousands more...
...road, it's just a way of life, like a gypsy, I suppose." She gets to her home in Bournemouth "three days in between trips here, and four days there, and occasionally as long as three weeks. That's maximum." Her other home is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but that one is filled with students. When she visits her beloved Gombe National Park, where her chimps live, she is usually accompanied by one film crew or another. She spends most of her time in the U.S. and Canada but also gets to Japan and China. "There are other places...