Attackers kill 12 at Kenya hotel, fire at plane

Friday, November 29, 2002

KIKAMBALA, Kenya -- In a twin attack reminiscent of al-Qaida's well-coordinated 1998 assault on the U.S. embassies in East Africa, suicide bombers in Kenya on Thursday killed 12 people at an Israeli-owned beach hotel and two missiles narrowly missed an airliner carrying home Israeli holidaymakers.

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