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He called for a moment of silence. ``May God bless the victims, their families and America,'' Bush said, his voice breaking with emotion.Bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire and Islamic militant, believed to be in exile in Afghanistan, was blamed for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died.An Arab journalist with access to bin Laden told Reuters in London that the renegade Saudi three weeks ago had warned of an ''unprecedented attack'' on U.S. interests.The previous worst act of terrorism in the United States was the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people died. Timothy McVeigh was executed for that attack earlier this yearA previous bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 resulted in six deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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