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Show A4 Bombings: Rescuers Sift Through Rubble agency with he: 14 militaryaircraft with security and anti-terrorist experts, medi cal supplies andcritical-care spe cialists to assist in recovery efforts at the two embassies @ Continued from A-1 Theyinclude more than 100 beneath the embassy Evelyn Nyaboke, a Red Cross worker who arrived minutes after the blast, said witnesses told her oneof the men fired at least one shotat oneof (he security guards. Soonafter, she said, there were twoexplosions ‘The first strong.” one wasn't as said Nyaboke, speaking during a break from her rescue work at the flattened Ufundi building. “Sotwo of the [men] ran back and thenit blew up again Nyaboke said the ly to morgueslookingfor lanta. Defenseofficials said t two other mensurvivedtheblast andtried = to flee but were chased down and &© caughtbypolice ai U.S, Embassyofficials said they = had noinformation about arrests connected to the bombing. They would not comment on specula tion about who might have been responsible. President Clinton said Saturday in Washington that he has no intention of withdrawing diplomats or troops from global hot spots troopsspeci y ties and two 50-man Marine Corps Fleet Anti-terrorist Security Teams About 36 men and women from r Force medical units based in Germany and Saudi Arabia also have been dispatchedtothe disas. ter scenes. The Pentagon identified the military casualties as Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Sherry Lynn Olds, 40, of PanamaCity, Fla., assigned to the Air Force Security Element in Nairobi; Marine Sgt Jesse N. Aliganga, 21, of Tallahassee, Fla., part of the embassy’s security unit; and Army Sgt. Kenneth R. Hobson II, 27, of Nevada, Mo., assigned to the office of the defense attache in the embassy. Albright released the identities of seven others: Jay Bartley, son of Consul General Julian Bartley; Jean Dalizu, defense attache’s office; Molly Hardy, administrative office: Prabhi Kavaler, general services office; Arlene Kirk, mili- tary assistance office: Michelle O'Connor, general services office; and Tom Shah, political section. Relatives had said Hardy was 51 bank building near the embassy She told reporters Saturday in Nairobi that sheasked if the first explosion was due to a construc. tion project but that the second one threw her to the floor With a severely cut upper lip and gashes on her hands, she and the bloodied minister stumbled in and the banister was “wet with Onceoutside, shesaid she sawa vehicle burning near where the Bushnell said. have much to gain fromattacks on US. targets In the minds of terrorists, such attacks are far from senseless and I ex- U.S. Marines and other security officials cordonedoff the area immediately after the blast, some with hands ontheir pistols, ready to fire, and they remained at nervous attention through the weekend. The building remained rear was blown out and offices there were gutted Next door, the Ufundi Co-op House had crumbled into a small hill oftrubble, dust and debris, and several dozen rescue workers assembled on top to sort through it. About 200 people remained in need of urgent treatment Satur- day at Nairobi’s Kenyatta Hospital and therewereshortagesofsyringes, needles and blood for President Daniel arap Moi ap- pealed for intravenous fluids Anxious relatives and friends went from hospital to hospital, ERVICE di Arabia and other Arab coun tries to refuse the United States permission to use their soil as ground has only aimed at them } policy r nite to | le States’ declared nish everyonere chkinds of terror trouble withthese Jaw in the Kho ng, is that evidence is hard to finch, said Ely Karmon an Israeli cJunterterrorism ex pert in Herz/fya, Israel This inflifences weak govern ments, like fhe Saudis and Per sian Gulf states, who understand that if the Americans can’t solve these bomlpings and can't stop them, how ¢an they? \ US diplomat who is based in the Middié Bast and has extensive experience tracking terrorist roup id Saturday that the \merican§' mostly poor record in nabbing (@rrorists serves to en attacks. 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Week pectit’s going to take a while.” At the embassy, heavily armed KNIGHT: RIDDER NEWS quite clear: Terror organizations Jean-Mare Bouju/The Associated Relativesfile by to identify loved onesin the Nairobi city morgue in Kenya on Saturday. “It's in whois behind this evil BY JOHN DONNELLY and STEVEN THOMMA terrorism ex. help all of us human beings just stop it, just stop hurting each other like this,” she said We lost some of those guards,”’ Attacks make smaller nations wary ofU.S. alliances ton's renewed pledge to track many people around the world are feeling, that some richlittle seed is going to grow that will everybody’s interest to find out Bombings Not Senseless From Terrorist Viewpoint perts said the answerto Prudence Bushnell’s question actually is And I was asking myself first of the point of this? Tcan only hopethat out of the depths of sorrow that so many, that none is armed. She said the entrance also is monitored by painkillers and antibiotics down the killers, Bushnell said she was per- plexed about the bombers’ objec- suspected car-bomb wentoff. She Also, relatives identified the 11th victim late Saturday as Louise Martin, 45. of Atlanta, an em. ployeeof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal the wreckageandPresident Clin- ies were charred Among the dead, Maina found his sister. down a crowded, smoky stairwell where every doorwell was blown blood.” transfusions, the Red Crosssaid. said she lay awake “What was the point ofall this?” Amidarising death toll from rotten andsinged flesh. The head was blownoff; mostof the 80 bod- all what was the point? What was at his office on the 18th floorofa yearsold, Kirk, 50 For most of the night after the deadly twin bombings of American embassies in e ! shaken U.S, amb to his nose against the stench of of a woman wearing blue jeans Trade Minister Joseph Kamotho closed-circuit television cameras. killed, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said one American footprints inside, holding a hand Iwas awake most oflast night tryingto figurethis out,” she said. nell was meeting with Kenyan continue to take the fight to terrorists.”” diplomat wasstill missing. Daniel Maina said He followed a trail of bloody At the time of the Nairobi blast U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bush said three security guards usually are at the entrance to the parking garage beneath the embassy but In addition to the 11 Americans come here,” outside the mortuary. tive despite the bombings. 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