TANZANIA: US EMBASSY BOMB BLAST INVESTIGATION LATEST

Описание: (13 Aug 1998) English/Nat

F-B-I investigators looking into the attack on the U-S Embassy in Dar es Salaam say the investigation is going well.

They're also speaking to five people in connection with the U-S Embassy bombing in Nairobi.

The nearly simultaneous bombings of the U-S Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania left 257 people dead - ten of them in Dar es Salaam - and more than five-thousand injured.

Earlier this week, police in Tanzania said they had arrested 14 people in connection with the Dar es Salaam bombing, although a Somali-born Australian was later released.

The acting U-S Ambassador to Tanzania, John Lang, spoke to reporters outside the bombed-out U-S Embassy building in Dar es Salaam on Thursday.

He said the F-B-I investigation into last Friday's bombing was well underway.

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"For those of you who have been here, back several days ago this was full of debris. It has since been sifted through by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other experts who are here. But we have to be very careful with the fact that this is a crime scene. In fact the crater where the bomb did go off is now bigger than it was because they've taken away some of the debris in there for that investigation."
SUPER CAPTION: John Lang, Acting US Ambassador to Tanzania

Lang said he was being told of developments in the investigation, although there were many different areas and experts involved.

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"I've been kept informed on the general basis of what is going on, but we have well over 100 people here who are dealing with many aspects of the investigation."
SUPER CAPTION: John Lang, Acting US Ambassador to Tanzania

The assistant F-B-I Special Agent in charge of the Tanzania bombing investigation told reporters that progress was being made.

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"The pace of our recovery of evidence is going well. We have no problems there. We have all the equipment we need. We have all the experts we need. (Q Any surprises without telling us what they are?) Well, of course bombing events are surprises in themselves, and of course what evidence they leave behind is what we find. I'm not sure I can say that I've been surprised by anything. We've found evidence of a bomb, I will assure you of that, and that is not surprising. (Q Any surprises as far as the placement of that bomb? Do you know where it was? Was it on this water truck?) Well you've seen the crater, the bomb detonated just above that crater. That's really all I'll say about that."
SUPER CAPTION: Kenneth Piernick, Assistant FBI Special Agent in charge of Tanzania investigation

Soldiers have been guarding the bomb site since the explosion last Friday.

Earlier this week, police in Tanzania said they had arrested 14 people in connection with the Dar es Salaam bombing, which killed ten people.

A Somali-born Australian was later released, presidential spokesman Geoffrey Nkulu said on Thursday.

Tanzania's ambassador to Washington, Mustafa Salim Nyang'anyi, said some of the suspects in Dar es Salaam may have had a hand in the attack.

U-S and Kenyan investigators say they are interrogating about five people in connection with the bombing of the U-S embassy in Nairobi.

And they say they're making some progress in identifying the bomb vehicle.

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