US helps Kenya fight terrorism
13/09/2007 07:26  - (SA)  

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Nairobi - The United States on Wednesday gave Kenyan army 41 humvees - mobile military vehicles - to strengthen the east African nation's muscle "to combat terrorism", said US ambassador to Kenya Michael E Ranneberger.

Kenyan Defence Minister Njenga Karume thanked Washington for the gesture, saying the humvees would boost the country's security.

East Africa had seen several al-Qaeda-linked terrorist attacks in recent years, including the near-simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998, killing a total of 224 people and injuring at least 5 000.

Kenya, specifically, and east Africa, generally, had been the site of several al-Qaeda-linked terrorist attacks in the past decades, including the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned resort near Kenya's port city of Mombasa.

The US had repeatedly warned Americans about possible similar attacks on Kenyan soil.

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