1998 United States embassy bombings

attacks on the US Embassy

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Location: 01°17′21″S 36°49′36″E / 1.28917°S 36.82667°E / -1.28917; 36.82667 and 06°47′21″S 39°16′46″E / 6.78917°S 39.27944°E / -6.78917; 39.27944 , Nairobi, Kenya , Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Date: August 7, 1998 ; 27 years ago ( 1998-08-07 ) , 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. EAT ( UTC+3 )
Target: United States embassies
Attack type: Truck bombs
Weapons: TNT , ammonium nitrate , pistol , stun grenade
Injured: 4,000+
Perpetrators: Al-Qaeda , Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Assailants: Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali , Jihad Mohammed Ali , Hamden Khalif Allah Awad , Mohammed Odeh
Motive: Islamist extremism, Anti-Americanism

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The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah were deemed responsible with planning and orchestrating the bombings. In retaliation for the bombings, U.S. president Bill Clinton ordered Operation Infinite Reach on August 20, 1998.