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Article: Kenya: American embassy targeted in al-Qaida plot Group allegedly planned to use hijacked plane, truck bomb
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- Oakland Tribune
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- October 25, 2003
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Al-Qaida operatives planned to destroy the U.S.
Embassy in Nairobi in June with a truck bomb and a hijacked plane
loaded with explosives, a plot described in a Kenya police report
seen by the Associated Press on Friday.
The report, based on an interrogation of a terror suspect, could
explain why the U.S. Embassy was closed June 20-24 and why Kenyan
officials banned flights from June 20-July 8 to and from Somalia, a
lawless neighbor and suspected haven for terrorists.
Those actions suggest some knowledge of the plot by U.S. and
Kenyan authorities, on alert to terror threats since the 1998 car
bombing of the old U.S. Embassy in downtown Nairobi, which killed 219
people ...