Dar es Salaam bomb suspects held<\/p>\n
NAIROBI (Reuters): The Tanzanian government said yesterday it
\nhad detained some suspects in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in
\nDar es Salaam, as delicate efforts continued to rescue a survivor
\nfrom the more deadly blast at the U.S. mission in Kenya.<\/p>\n
\"We have just gotten word that the government of Tanzania has
\nannounced that it has detained three groups of suspects,\" Susan
\nRice, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, told
\nreporters in Washington.<\/p>\n
\"We don't know the precise identity of those suspects or
\nwhether they will turn out to be an important lead in this
\ninvestigation,\" Rice said.<\/p>\n
A U.S. official said about a dozen people had been detained
\nand another source close to the investigation said most of the
\nsuspects were believed to be Sudanese or Iraqi nationals.<\/p>\n
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian police commissioner Wilson
\nMwansasu confirmed that \"some suspects\" had been arrested but
\nsaid he did not know how many or if they were considered
\nprincipal suspects.<\/p>\n
The two car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in Nairobi
\nand Dar es Salaam last Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The death toll in Kenya stands at 180, according to a
\ngovernment committee set up to deal with the crisis, and U.S.
\nofficials said this number included 12 Americans. More than 5,000
\npeople were injured.<\/p>\n
In Tanzania, 10 people died and more than 70 were wounded.<\/p>\n
The bodies of 11 of the 12 American dead were flown out of
\nNairobi yesterday en route to the United States. The 12th
\nAmerican victim will be buried in Kenya as she was married to a
\nKenyan national.<\/p>\n
A previously unknown Islamic group calling itself \"The Islamic
\nArmy for the Liberation of Holy Places\" claimed responsibility
\nfor the two bombings last Saturday.<\/p>\n
It said the Nairobi bombing was carried out by two men from
\nMecca in Saudi Arabia, while an Egyptian staged the Dar es Salaam
\nattack. It did not mention the fate of the men.<\/p>\n
U.S. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger told American
\ntelevision last Sunday it was too soon to publicly identify
\npossible suspects but added: \"We take all of that seriously\".<\/p>\n
In Nairobi, the sound of tapping from the rubble of an office
\nblock earlier yesterday gave fatigued rescue workers renewed hope
\nthere was at least one more survivor, but by 1350 GMT (8:50 p.m.
\nJakarta time yesterday) they had still not reached the source of
\nthe sound.<\/p>\n
Rescuers have been working around the clock to reach a woman
\nknown only as \"Rose\" from the collapsed structure of Ufundi
\nHouse, next door to the U.S. mission.<\/p>\n
\"I am full of hope she is alive and is hanging in there,\" said
\nMeital Hallawi, a first officer in the Israeli army rescue unit
\nleading the operation. \"Rose is very strong.\"<\/p>\n
A British army engineer, who arrived at the scene with a
\ncontingent of men about an hour after the blast, told Reuters the
\nbomb could have contained as much as 250 kilos of explosive. \"It
\nis certainly the biggest bomb I have ever seen.\"<\/p>\n
Jones told Reuters that any number of commercial explosives
\ncould have been used to construct the bomb, including ammonium
\nphosphate and plastic explosives.<\/p>\n
\"I reckon it was a pretty well made bomb. I don't think it was
\nmanufactured locally,\" he said. \"I am only surmising, but I would
\nimagine it was manufactured somewhere else and shipped in.\"<\/p>\n
Investigators have warned it could take time to identify the
\nperpetrators of the attacks.<\/p>\n
In Washington, national security officials said the probe
\ncould be a long one but said the United States would not rest
\nuntil the attackers were brought to justice.<\/p>\n
But Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi told reporters last
\nSunday that investigators were following \"a few leads\" in
\nconnection with the Nairobi blast.<\/p>\n
In Tanzania, a U.S. official said a security camera mounted
\natop the bombed embassy in Dar es Salaam may have captured the
\nbombers in the act. He gave no details about what the tape might
\nshow.<\/p>\n
The site -- in a quiet area on the outskirts of the capital --
\nand the circumstances of the Dar es Salaam bomb could prove more
\nlikely to provide clues to the identity of the bombers.<\/p>\n
Investigators will also be focusing on a blue water delivery
\ntanker which passed the embassy gates seconds before the blast.
\nThe explosion slammed the tanker into the embassy wall.<\/p>",
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