United Nations Security Council resolution 1189 , adopted unanimously on 13 August 1998 , after expressing its deep disturbance at the bombings in Nairobi , Kenya , and Dar es Salaam , Tanzania on 7 August 1998 , the Council strongly condemned the terrorist attacks and called on countries to adopt measures to prevent further incidents . On 7 August 1998 , hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the major East African cities of Dar es Salaam , Tanzania and Nairobi , Kenya . The attacks , linked to local members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad , brought Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to American attention for the first time , and resulted in the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation placing bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted list
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1189