All such fears evaporated the moment the President found himself in a bind. The President was especially heavy on the rhetoric following the Oklahoma City bombing, no doubt because McVeigh was representative of right-wing extremism. Mr. McVeigh, the mastermind terrorist, simply parked a truck loaded with a crude fertilizer bomb in front of the building and walked away. The same identical procedure was used in Kenya and Tanzania. The same procedure at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the same procedure at the marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983.
Truck bombs are old hat.
About 300-600 miles from Somalia and Sudan, a bit further from Algeria and Libya, in the heartland of Islamic fanaticism and civil war. The bottom line is that U.S. embassies in Africa are at great risk, but the Clinton administration did nothing to increase security. The bombed embassy in Nairobi was located in a public building in the heart of the city with virtually NO protection whatsoever. Apparently Bill and Madeline's idea of security is a few marine guards and surveillance cameras, both of which were blown away in the blasts. The bottom line is that the Clinton State Department is criminally negligent in failing to use any security at all to protect its employees.