Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was a Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa. Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and had Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship. He spoke French, Swahili, Arabic, English, and Comorian.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
1998 United States embassy bombings
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two Capital East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the other at the United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
U.S. embassy in Nairobi after the explosion, with the collapsed Ufundi Building.
A Nissan Atlas truck, similar to that used in Dar es-Salaam
Wreckage from the Nairobi bombing
Memorial park at the site of the embassy in Nairobi, 2007