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Reuters Reporter , 25 June 2003
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The United States reopened its embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday after shutting it on Friday because of what it called a serious terrorist threat.
A spokesman said the embassy would be closed from time to time due to the persistent threat.
“We will be doing periodic closings based on the continuing threat of terrorism in east Africa. We are varying embassy hours in view of the ongoing threat in Kenya,” he said, declining to elaborate.
The US embassy in Nairobi was the target of a bombing in 1998 which killed more than 200 people, an attack the US blames on Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organisation.
On Friday, a US official said al Qaeda operatives were continuing to plan attacks in Kenya and the Horn of Africa and could “undertake an operation at any time”.
Washington has periodically closed embassies across Africa for several days at a time since 1998 for security reasons and stepped up the practice after the September 11 attacks on the United States.
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