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Cabinet Minister Joseph Kamotho beingcarried by his security aides from the Co-operative House after the US
Embassy bombing on August 7, 1998. [PHOTO: FILE]
Joseph Kamotho, 72, was Kenya’s Trade minister at the time of the attack. He was hosting US Ambassador Prudence Bushnell in his 16th floor Co-operative House offices when the bomb went off.
The picture of his bloodied face as he was carried out of the building to the hospital made the front pages of local newspapers and became the image of the attack that shook the nation.
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