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Photo by Khalil Senosi

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 7, 1998
Rescue workers hoist a woman, rescued from the U.S. Embassy, over the rubble of a collapsed building next to the embassy.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 8, 1998
Kenyans walk through the Nairobi city morgue to identify relatives and friends the day after the bombing.



Photo by Brennan Linsley

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug. 10, 1998
On the day of his burial, female family members say Muslim prayers for Bakari Nyumbu, a U.S. Embassy guard who was killed in the Aug. 7 bombing at the embassy.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 29, 1998
Nurses at a Nairobi Hospital walk in a hallway blindfolded as they experience what it feels like to be blind as part of a training session to learn about the particular needs of a blind mother like Catherine Bwire, blinded in the Aug. 7 bombing of the U.S. Embassy.



Photo by Sayyid Azim

AIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 11, 1998
Members of the Red Cross and Kenyan military remove a body from the collapsed building next to the U.S. Embassy.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

AIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 13, 1998
Kenyans scan the list of bombing fatalities posted in Uhuru Park.



Photo by Sayyid Azim

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 7, 1998
The injured are helped to an ambulance after the explosion at the U.S. Embassy.


Photo by Sayyid Azim

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 9, 1998
Thousands of Kenyans mourn and pray at Uhuru Park for the victims of the Aug. 7 bombing.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 15, 1998
Shirley Wambui, 5, weeps during the burial of her aunt Alice Ndutu Gachiri in the Nairobi Langata cemetery. Gachiri died Aug. 7 in the building next to the U.S. Embassy destroyed by a car bomb.



Photo by John McConnico

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 12, 1998
U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell grieves after laying a wreath at the site of the U.S. Embassy bombing.



Photo by John McConnico



NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 10, 1998
Young Kenyans join in a peace vigil in Central Nairobi near the American Embassy and the Ufundi House which were both devastated by the Aug. 7 bombing.


Photo by Sayyid Azim

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 11, 1998
Teams from Israel, the United States and France work with Kenyan rescuers to recover bodies trapped under the building adjacent to the U.S. embassy, left, which collapsed in the Aug. 7 explosion.



Photo by Sayyid Azim

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 7, 1998
U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, right, is helped to safety by an unidentified man with blood on his face following an explosion at the embassy.



Photo by Dave Caulkin

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 12, 1998
A Kenyan soldier prepares to raise the U.S. flag outside Ufundi House, where a short ceremony was held to remember the victims of the Aug. 7 bombing.


Photo by Brennan Linsley

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug. 10, 1998
The coffin containing the body of U.S. Embassy guard Bakari Nyumbu, who was killed in the Aug. 7 bombing, is passed into a grave beneath a blanket inscibed with Koranic writing during a traditional Muslim burial ceremony.



Photo by Sayyid Azim

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 7, 1998
Burned bodies lie beside damaged cars outside the U.S. Embassy, seen in the background, after the bombing.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju


NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 8, 1998
Catherinje Bwire, 25, sits in her home with her husband Henri Lukhoba. Bwire was pregnant when she was blinded in the Aug. 7 bombing of the U.S. Embassy. She gave birth to her daughter Jean Bahati Lukhoba on Oct. 27.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouj

AIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 28, 1998
Catherine Bwire is handed her daughter Jean Bahati Lukhoba, for the first time from social worker Pauline Ngatia, at Nairobi Hospital. Bwire had to wait 24 hours after her ceasarian delivery to hold her child.



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 12, 1998
Lawrence Irungu waits by the collapsed building near the U.S. Embassy, hours before the dead body of his wife Rose Wanjiku was found. Rescuers found Wanjiku's body after she fought for days to stay alive in the rubble. Irungu said at the time of the picture that he was "hoping that she's still alive."



Photo by Jean-Marc Bouju

NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 14, 1998
An unidentified Kenyan woman weeps during a memorial service for victims on the site of the U.S. embassy bombing.