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FILE: Nairobi, Kenya - 7 August 1998
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1. Collapsed Ufundi Cooperative building in front of US Embassy
2. Various of people trying to clear rubble
3. American flag draped over fence at embassy and pan to crowds
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Nairobi, Kenya - 20 July 2015
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4. Various of Douglas Sidialo, a survivor of the 1998 Kenya bombing, at the memorial site of the former US embassy
5. Various of US tourists at memorial site
6. Various of Sidialo
7. Sidialo being helped to walk to the memorial wall
8. Various of Sidialo praying in front of the wall
9. Close of engraving on the wall reading (English) "May the innocent victims of this tragic event rest in the knowledge that it has strengthened our resolve to work for a world in which a man is able to live alongside his brother in peace."
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Douglas Sidialo, survivor of 1998 bombing of US embassy in Nairobi:
"So the 24 Americans who were killed in 1998 were considered for compensation by the house of Congress in 2002 but none of the Kenyans was ever considered. Therefore, as an American president who has served as the first black president in America, (he) should give us Kenyans a greater consideration on humanitarian grounds to see to it that we can have some kind of livelihood."
11. Various of Sidialo praying in front of wall
12. Wide of memorial wall
13. Sidialo walking away
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FILE: Nairobi, Kenya - 7 August 1998
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14. Various of injured and bloodied people during aftermath of bombing
15. Tilt up to people searching for survivors
16. People searching through rubble, pan and zoom to man being taken out from rubble
17. Survivor being passed to group of men
18. Low angle view of smoke emanating from building, tilt down to people searching through rubble
19. Survivor being carried at ground level, pan to damaged front of US embassy
20. US embassy seal
STORYLINE
As Kenyans anticipate the visit later this week of US President Barack Obama, a survivor of the 1998 US embassy bombing prayed in front of a wall commemorating those killed that day.
Douglas Sidialo lost his sight in the al-Qaida attack on the US embassy in Nairobi on 7 August 1998.
Scores of people were killed and over one thousand injured in powerful explosions in the Kenyan capital and the US embassy in Tanzania which was targeted at the same time.
The attack left crumbled buildings ablaze and scattered bodies through the rubble-strewn streets.
The blast in Nairobi hit at 10:35 a.m. local time (0735 GMT) and toppled the four-storey Ufundi Cooperative building opposite the embassy, which was itself badly damaged, along with nearby Cooperative Bank House, housing government and private offices.
On Monday, Douglas Sidialo was back at the scene to remember those who lost more than their sight.
On the memorial wall are names of over 200 victims who perished in the attack.
Survivors tell of how they rushed to have a look from the vantage point of buildings near the embassy when they heard a blast, only for a second more powerful blast to strike, shattering windows which blinded Sidialo and injured many others.
Seventeen years later his only request to the visiting US president is for all victims of the 1998 terror attack to be considered for compensated on humanitarian grounds.
"The 24 Americans who were killed in 1998 were considered for compensation by the house of Congress in 2002 but none of the Kenyans was ever considered," he said.
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