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Diplomatic Security agents at the UN compound in Nairobi, Kenya, July 18, 2015, walk past a garden of remembrance planted after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing by al-Qa'ida. The garden includes tea and coffee plants representing each individual killed in the attack. (U.S. Department of State photo)

U.S. Department of State

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