ABSTRACT
Islamic terror organizations that based their infrastructures in Sudan, Somalia and Yemen regarded the countries in the region—such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania—as preferred arenas for terror activities. On June 26, 1995, an assassination attempt was made against Egyptian President Hussni Mubarak while he was en route from the Addis Ababa airport into the city where he was to attend an African unity conference. The terror cell that perpetrated the attack in Nairobi was composed of a small nucleus of six to eight activists under the command of Fazul Abdallah Muhammad, an Al Qaida member born in the Comoro Islands. The first operations perpetrated by Al Qaida members were the suicide attacks at the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. Al Qaida itself perpetrated only a small number of attacks out of the many that were perpetrated by terror organizations affiliated with Sunni Islamic terror.
