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Seconds from Disaster

Season 2 · Episode 18

US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)

0.047mJune 27, 2006

Al Queda struck again on August 7, 1998. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, a truck bomb destroys the U.S. Embassy buildings killing 257 and injuring thousands.

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Episodes

Episode 1Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)
Episode 2Alpine Tsunami
Episode 3Motorway Plane Crash (Freeway Plane Crash)
Episode 4Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)
Episode 5Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (Capsized in the North Sea)
Episode 6Kobe Earthquake (Killer Quake)
Episode 7Crash Landing at Sioux City
Episode 8The Bali Bombing (Disco Bombing)
Episode 9Hotel Collapse Singapore (Hotel Collapse)
Episode 10TWA Flight 800
Episode 11Paris Train Crash (Runaway Train)
Episode 12The Hindenburg (Hindenburg Airship)
Episode 13Explosion in Peurto Rico (Puerto Rico Gas Explosion)
Episode 14Skywalk Collapse
Episode 15Amsterdam Air Crash (Plane Crash in the Suburbs)
Episode 16Russia's Nuclear Sub Nightmare (Sinking of the Kursk)
Episode 17King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)
Episode 18US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)
Episode 19Florida Swamp Air Crash (Everglades Plane Crash)