The 1998 US Embassy Bombs
by Anthony C Heaford --- @mancunianquiet on twitter --- updated 20 August 2026
On 7 August 1998 two truck bombs exploded outside the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, murdering 224 people and wounding over 4000 more. The bomb in Kenya contained about five hundred cylinders of TNT explosive, each about the size of a drinks can. I have evidence that TNT was made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Yemen using chemicals sourced via the US State Department in Washington two years earlier.
In August 1996 the US embassy Yemen and the State Department in Washington helped source two batches of chemicals for Yemen’s biggest company, the Hayel Saeed Anam Group. The requests (published online by the Journal of Commerce) included the key component chemicals for the manufacture of TNT explosives: Toluene and nitric acid, plus a host of other chemicals. The Hayel Saeed Anam Group’s (HSA) requests were split over two orders (6 and 13 August), used a misspelling of the principle component Toluene (Tuluene). The Toluene and nitric acid requests were separated by a week, a deliberate effort to hide the true purpose / potential of this particular chemical combination. I believe that based on my experiences while visiting the HSA Taiz HQ a year later, in September 1997.
I was in Yemen to install some printing machinery for my Queen’s Award winning employer, JM Heaford Limited. Located in a secure hilltop compound on the edge of the city the HSA HQ was staffed and guarded almost exclusively by Pakistanis – locals called it the foreigner’s compound. The Pakistani machine operators I trained told me they were chemical engineering graduates. On the last day of that visit I was introduced to the Engineer (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) before being taken to a clandestine meeting one mile from Al Qaidah town by the US embassy’s contact at HSA – their general manager Mohamed Salem.
Combining those two pieces of Intel – the 1996 supply of TNT chemicals and my experience in 1997 Yemen – is the basis for my claim that’s where the bombs used to attack the US embassies in 1998 were made.
Links to 6 August & 13 August joc.com requests
HSA Group HQ to Al Qaidah town (google maps)
Two pieces of US Department of Defense evidence support my claims - KSM's detainee assessment confirm KSM was in Kenya shortly before the bombings and the surviving attacker told the FBI his contact's phone number was in Yemen's capitol Sanaa.
My Reasoning
The machine sale I was installing in Yemen was setup by my employer’s US sales agent Dave Dean at a printing industry exhibition in April 1997 Chicago. Dean committed suicide on 8 January 2020 after I’d publicly accused him of links to CIA contractor Billy Waugh and of knowingly setting up the machine sale to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s front company inside the HSA HQ. In his 2004 autobiography Billy Waugh admitted working with Al Qaeda in 1990s Yemen. Dean's own business, Dean Printing Systems specialized in the supply of industrial chemicals.
The HSA Group has a long history of links to terrorism financing too, as documented by Fox News in 2004. They say that in 1982 a HSA director gave his power of attorney to a known terrorism financier. In 1984 that power of attorney was used to start a financial shell company in Switzerland which in 2002 was sanctioned by the US Treasury and United Nations. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill described HSA’s partners in that affair as "supporters of terrorism" involved in "an extensive financial network providing support to Al Qaeda and other terrorist-related organizations."
When questioned about his role in setting up that shell company the HSA director said he'd forgot he'd given his power of attorney to the known terrorism financier. No further action was taken. The UN and US treasury removed that terrorism financer from their sanctioned list without reason or explanation in 2007. He was the Italian resident, Eritrean owner of one of Nigeria's biggest companies, NASCO. Allegations of NASCO's links to groups like Boko Haram continue, as do the company's denials.
There can be no doubt the USA knew about Al Qaeda's presence in Yemen as per this quote from US ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine:
"When I got there in 1997, there was already an Al Qaeda presence. We knew about it. The Yemenis knew about it.
Everyone knew about it.... these people were primarily foreign nationals.... warehoused in peripheral areas."
That description matches the Pakistanis I met in an empty factory building to a tee.
Why?
I don't think the US State Department knowingly sourced TNT chemicals for KSM's hosts and financiers the HSA Group. I do think it's possible that rogue elements of the CIA did; that's supported by the Intel above and historical precedent. In 1977 a CIA asset supplied twenty+ tonnes of C-4 explosives to Colonel Gaddafi's Libya, with Billy Waugh's assistance. And we know CIA asset Waugh did work with Al Qaeda in 1990s Yemen. If I am correct it was CIA assets behind this then the reason they sourced the TNT chemicals via the embassy and State Department would have been self protection. The CIA asset who sold C-4 to Libya was jailed for twenty years before it was admitted he was a CIA asset and his conviction was overturned.
I believe Waugh met / recruited my former work colleague Dave Dean during their service in 1969 Vietnam. If they were both involved in these shenanigans I think their justification came from their bitter experiences in Vietnam. Their enabling motivation will have come from entities such as the Project for a New American Century's 'new Pearl Harbour'.
Resolution
There's one very simple way to confirm / dismiss my claims - ask the HSA Group to identify everyone they introduced me to during my 1997 visit to their headquarters. My identification of said individuals is shown in the photos below and here. Or simply ask the men I claim to have met in Yemen - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ahmed al-Darbi.