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Remembering the 1998 US embassy bombings [PHOTOS]

Al-Qaeda operatives detonated explosives at the U.S. embassy, Nairobi. August 7, 1998. [File, Standard]

On this day 23 years ago, Al-Qaeda operatives detonated truck laden explosives at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in a near-simultaneous attack that killed 224 people and wounded over 2,000. 

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