On 7 August 1998, Al Qaeda attacked almost simultaneously U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania killing 258 people and wounding over 5000. The U.S. indicted twenty-two individuals for the bombings including four Kenyans and two Tanzanians. 1 On 12 October 2000 the USS Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine wounded.2 In March 2007, US District Court Judge Robert Doumar ruled that Al Qaeda (AQ) could not have carried out the USS Cole attack without official Sudanese support.3 While many might argue about the finer details of these attacks, there is no doubt that the terrorists behind the embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole recruited, planned, and trained from within the Horn of Africa.4 Perhaps the clearest reason why this area is fertile ground for terrorism is rooted in the region's instability.
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