AF Nairobi Embassy Bombing Memorials

This is a simple memorial at the site of the new embassy honoring the US and Kenyan employes who were killed in the '98 bombing.  A dynamic young officer, Prabhi Kabvaler, who I first met when she served in Jeruslaem and I served in Amman in 1982, was killed in the bombing.

Inside the embassy, along one long corridor wall  is a recognition, in photos, to the many Kenyan employees who survived the bombing and still work for the USG.  One of them, first name , Livingston , is one of the warmest, nicest, most caring people I have ever met. Livingston lost 90% of his eyesight in the blast.

From Wikipedia:

The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia.^[1]
The attacks were linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to the attention of the American public for the first time, and resulted in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The FBI also connected the attack to Azerbaijan, as 60 calls via satellite phone were placed by Bin Laden to associates in Baku regarding the strike.^[2] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was credited for being the mastermind behind the bombings.^[3][4] Since that time, Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian explosives expert and member of al-Qaeda, has also been indicted for his part in the bombings.

This monument is for all the people killed in the bombing - in the embassy and in the secretarial college building next door.

Prabhi's name , as well as the names of all the embassy employees  and that of the secretarial students and staff, is listed here.

Wikipedia

On August 7, between 10:30 am and 10:40 am local time suicide bombers in trucks laden with explosives parked outside the embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and almost simultaneously detonated.^[15] In Nairobi, approximately 212 people were killed, and an estimated 4,000 wounded Although the attacks were directed at American facilities, the vast majority of casualties were local citizens; 12 Americans were killed,^[18] including two Central Intelligence Agency employees in the Nairobi embassy, Tom Shah and Molly Huckaby Hardy,^[19] and one Marine, Sergeant Jesse Aliganga, a Marine Security Guard at the Nairobi embassy.^[20][21]

The city turned the blast site into a memorial park. It sits at the juncture of the two most importsnt rodes in Nairobi.  In the memorial park , dwarfed by the high rises of the city, sits the Peace Museum, honoring the victims.

The outside of the museum.

A better view of the museum.