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Article: AL QAEDA IN MISSILE AND BOMB HORROR; Bid to shoot down Israeli tourist plane Massive blast at Kenya holiday hotel Many killed - two children among dead.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2002
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Byline: PATRICK SAWER;HARRIET ARKELL;ED HARRIS
TERRORISTS blew up a hotel and tried to shoot down a packed jet in a double attack on Israeli tourists in Kenya this morning.
The attacks, in which at least eleven people died and 80 Victim: Kenyan TV footage shows one of the guests injured in the explosion at the Paradise Hotel on the Mombasa coast today
were injured, are being blamed on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. In the first attack two missiles were fired from the back of a Mitsubishi Shogun which narrowly missed a 757 Israeli charter jet with 270 people on board just after takeoff from Mombasa airport.
Ground staff saw a ...