Aliganga was working at the American embassy in Nairobi , Kenya . On August 7 , 1998 , at the age of 21 , Aliganga was killed by a car-bomb explosion , along with eleven fellow Americans , in a suicide bomb attack . Aliganga was the only U.S. Marine who was killed in the attack in Kenya . This was part of a simultaneous suicide bomb attack in which car bombs were exploded at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya , killing 257 people and wounding over 4,000 . The attack was later determined to be conducted by the al-Qaeda network and Osama bin Laden
a suicide bomb attack
1998 United States embassy bombings
Jesse Aliganga