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Date: 07 August 2008 15:25:16
Ten years ago today bomb blasts hit both Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam.
I had spent July 4th that year at the US Marine club in Dar, just round the corner from the embassy. Casualties were few in Dar, as the embassy was more isolated and had been a former Israeli embassy so was very well fortified. In Nairobi over 200 people died and thousands were injured, as the embassy was right down town and next to some office buildings. There was understandable resentment as ambulances were held up and people were prevented from moving around the area and the feeling is that casualties need not have been nearly as high, and that victims were badly treated later.