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[BBC News: 2004-12-22]

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A Tanzanian court has acquitted and released a man charged over the 1998 US embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam. The judge said there were too many doubts to convict Rashid Sweleh Hemed, after a trial lasting several years. Eleven people died in the Tanzania attack. Another blast the same day at the US embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi killed a further 213 people. The 34-year-old businessman had 11 counts of . . .
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