Court Deals Blow to 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing Victims

The 1998 bomb blast in Nairobi, Kenya, claimed the lives of 213 people at the site, with hundreds of others left nursing permanent scars...

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The High Court has dismissed a petition by victims and families of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi who sought compensation from the Kenyan government.

The court ruled on Wednesday, January 28, that the cases lacked a sufficient legal basis.
The petitioners failed to demonstrate that the government had prior knowledge or actionable intelligence of the attack.
Reports presented as evidence were deemed hearsay because their authors were not called to testify.

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