(New York Times) They scouted the streets. They took photographs. They wrote detailed surveillance reports. And then, after five years of patiently waiting, al-Qaeda operatives carried out the devastating suicide truck bombing at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 1998, killing more than 200 people. Studying targets and fine-tuning strategies for years before an attack is in part why officials in Washington say they are so alarmed about the latest evidence of reconnaissance of financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington.
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