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Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa

We remember the day in 1998 when al-Qaeda bombed America's embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and hear the harrowing testimony of a man who was blinded for life in one of the blasts.

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