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Staff from the U.S. Embassy's Regional Security Office, visiting the UN compound in Nairobi, Kenya, July 23, 2015, walk past a garden of remembrance planted after al-Qa'ida's 1998 suicide bomb attack at the U.S. embassy. (U.S. Department of State photo)

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