Iran, Sudan liable for 1998 embassy bombings

Sudan provided Al Qa’ida — including bin Laden himself for a time — with “safe haven” while the attacks were being planned.

Iran and Sudan both played instrumental roles in the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, a federal judge in Washington has ruled.

The families of Kenyans and Tanzanians who worked in the embassies and who died in the bombings are therefore eligible to receive compensation from the governments of Iran and Sudan, US Judge John Bates decided.