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Events on Friday 7 August 1998 1
1998United States embassy bombings in Kenya and TanzaniaAl-Qaeda truck bombs kill over 220On 7 August 1998, near-simultaneous truck bombs detonated outside US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing over 220 people and injuring thousands, mostly local civilians. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, and the attacks marked the group's emergence as a major international threat, prompting US cruise missile strikes on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan later that month.