The same compound was attacked in August 1998 following the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
David Ruhnke defended one of four people convicted by Fitzgerald in the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
That threat was brought home when 224 people were killed in the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.
This was the most severe attack on American diplomatic facilities and personnel since the attacks on the US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Aweys, for his part, is wanted by the FBI in connection with his role in the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Washington had warned American citizens and staff of US embassies and businesses to be extra vigilant after the 1995 conviction of Sheikh Omar and others on terrorism charges.
Security has been tightened at US embassies across the world.
Ironically enough, NPR's ban came to light just after US cruise missile strikes against Osama bin Laden's organization, which had been implicated in suicide bomb attacks on US embassies in Africa.
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As a federal employee, Ms Velazquez worked for the state department's development arm, the US Agency for International Development, held a top-security clearance and was posted to US embassies in Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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The sanctions are intended to force the Taleban to hand over the Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden, who is accused by the United States of plotting the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 250 people.
Shortly after Ethiopian forces took control of Mogadishu, US aircraft pursued fleeing al-Qaida terrorists in southern Somalia after intelligence reports indicated that among the fleeing ICU leaders were the masterminds of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
The United States, in particular, is demanding that the Taleban hand over the Saudi-born militant, Osama bin Laden, who Washington accuses of involvement in the bombing of two US embassies in Africa last year and of masterminding a loose network of Islamic radicals hostile to the West.
Mr Bary - indicted on 284 counts - will also be put on trial for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - which caused the deaths of more than 200 people and injured thousands more.
The US, French and Italian embassies in the Libyan capital were also attacked.
And you know, they would use a rationale that, well, we're so close to one another, we're such brotherly peoples, we don't need embassies speaking for us.
The bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania reminds us of the risks faced every day by those who represent America to the world.
Beginning in 1950 the State Department directed US diplomats to discourage other governments from establishing their embassies in Jerusalem.
Both of us have said that we would make sure that our embassies and our civilians are protected.
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The US concern was expressed in a note - or demarche - issued to embassies and obtained by the Washington Post newspaper.
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