On Blast Anniversary, Moi Seeks Tighter Border
Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi marked the third anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi with a call for tighter immigration controls and a crackdown on illegal imports of small arms.
In a ceremony at the former site of the bombed embassy, which has been turned into a memorial park, Moi said small arms had been entering the country in the same way as the embassy bombers.
Two bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998, killed a total of 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 4,000.
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