They had even heard of a possible plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi but failed to recommend an increase in security before the attack.
The United States accused Osama bin Laden as the the mastermind of the bombings. Within days of the August 7 bombings, two bin Laden associates were arrested and charged with the attacks.
On August 20, President Bill Clinton ordered Cruise missiles launched against bin Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, where bin Laden allegedly made or distributed chemical weapons.
US government issued a lengthy indictment of Osama bin Laden and many of his associates in the late fall of 1998.In February 2001, four of the suspects went on trial in New York on 302 criminal counts stemming from the embassy attacks.
On May 29, all four were convicted on all counts. Watch the devastation by bombings in pics:
