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Prelude: How masterminds plotted 1998 attack under the police's nose

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1998 Nairobi US Embassy bombing planners Wadih El Hage and Fazul Mohamed. [File, Standard]

A year before the 1998 Nairobi US Embassy bombing, CID (now DCI) detectives and FBI agents raided a house in Nairobi, where Wadih El Hage, an ex-secretary to Osama bin Laden, lived.

This was after intelligence reports showed the terror network was planning attacks in East Africa.

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