NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 19 -- FBI special agents have reportedly found the location where the bomb that destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Kenya was assembled. The Daily Nation, a Nairobi newspaper, reports today that the FBI raided the Hill Top Hotel in Nairobi and concentrated their search on two rooms where they say a bomb made with about 1,800 pounds of TNT was put together. Nearly simultaneous explosions Aug. 7 at the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam killed 257 people, including 12 Americans in Nairobi. Another 5,000 people were injured. The Kenyan newspaper says that on Tuesday morning a team of 15 FBI special agents and six detectives from Nairobi authorities stormed the hotel. They sealed off the building and conducted a search that was centered on rooms 102 and 107. About two hours later, investigators emerged carrying boxes of what is believed to be evidence. Some evidence from the bombing has already been forwarded to FBI laboratories in Washington, D.C. According to the Daily Nation, six men, including Mohammed Sadiq Howaida who is in custody, were involved in the attack. Howaida and three other men made the device and put it into a pickup truck, which was used to transport the bomb to the U.S. Embassy. The newspaper says three of the terrorists died in the blast. Howaida was detained the day of the bombing in Pakistan and has since been handed to Kenyan authorities. Pakistani police have reportedly arrested two other Arabs suspected of involvement in the bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.
The United News of India on Tuesday reported that the North West Frontier Police arrested the two men while they were attempting to cross into Afghanistan from Torkham in western Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistani authorities arrested Howaida for suspected involvement in embassy bombings. U.S. authorities have since identified him as Mohammed Saddiq Odeh. ---
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