10 years of al Qaeda
Although the terrorist group al Qaeda was probably established in 1988, the organisation came to the world’s attention exactly 10 years ago today with the bombing of the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
The decade since then has been a bloody one, in terms of al-Qaeda itself never more so that the Twin Towers attacks of 11 September 2001. Meanwhile, of course, the organisation’s leader Osama bin Laden remains at large.