How well-trained guards averted maximum carnage in 1998 US embassy bombing

By JOE KIARIE

The 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, which killed 212 people and wounded 4,000 others, had some unlikely heroes. While the nation mourned the terror attack victims, it is the embassy’s private guards who made headlines in security journals as they received accolades from international security experts. Their heroics on the day had presumably saved thousands of lives.