Nairobi

FBI agents and Kenyan police detectives on Tuesday raided a Nairobi hotel popular with Muslim businessmen and left after having combed two rooms for clues in the U.S. embassy bombings, hotel employees and guests said late Tuesday. Although U.S. and Kenyan authorities would not comment on the raid, unnamed sources told a Nairobi newspaper that the bomb that rocked the embassy here Aug. 7 was built in the two rooms just days before the blasts.

Elijah Ngito Owino, who worked as a payroll clerk in one of the buildings in downtown Nairobi destroyed by a terrorist bomb, is missing. Two months ago, his wife, Zena Ngito, died of malaria. Their two children, Calvin Biko, 9, and Michelle Ngito, 8, understand that their mom is gone. But they keep asking, "Where's Daddy?" Ten days after bombs aimed at U.S.

Before a bomb devastated the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, a line of Kenyans and Americans seeking aid would form outside the building every morning. Some hoped for visas. Others had been robbed. Each one faced some dilemma. It was Julian Bartley's job to make sure that not a soul was left by the end of the day. Other senior embassy staffers focused their attention on treaties, contracts or policies. As consul general, Bartley was the embassy's outreach officer for everyday expatriates and locals.

A phalanx of American medical, military, intelligence and diplomatic personnel descended on this capital Sunday as U.S. Ambassador Prudence Bushnell held a solemn memorial service at her suburban Nairobi residence for a dozen dead Americans. The number of Americans known to have been killed in Friday's bombing at the U.S.

The manicured lawns and well-tended flower beds outside Nairobi's main mortuary Saturday belied a scene of horror inside. In somber silence, relatives of those still missing after Friday's car bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in downtown Nairobi stood huddled in small groups, bracing themselves for the ordeal they were about to face. Then a door was opened, and an official ushered them in.

Molly Huckaby Hardy liked to start up social dance groups. Sherry Lynn Olds was an enthusiastic explorer who often went out into the bush on safari. And Prabhi Guptara Kavaler, born in India, chose a second tour in Africa so she could introduce her two young American daughters to the exotic wildlife that she so loved. Army Sgt. Kenneth R. Hobson II chose the posting in Kenya because he thought it would be the most perfect place to take his family, said a longtime neighbor in Missouri.

International rescue teams continued a painstaking search for survivors beneath hunks of collapsed concrete Saturday as the death toll from terrorist bombs outside the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania rose to at least 147, with more than 4,800 injured. Thirty-six hours into the search, an Israeli-led crew salvaged Kenya's floundering rescue effort and boosted the nation's spirits when they extracted a 45-year-old businessman from beneath the debris.

Two powerful bomb blasts at U.S. embassies here and in neighboring Tanzania on Friday crumbled buildings, turned passing buses into bloody coffins and left rescue workers toiling into the early morning today in a frantic bid to free pleading survivors buried in the rubble. At least 80 people, including eight Americans, were reported killed altogether, and more than 1,700 others were injured in what U.S. officials described as coordinated bombings by unknown terrorists.

Faith Gathoni, 10, clutches her listless brother tightly against her hip and marches determinedly toward three foreign tourists window-shopping downtown. The baby slumped against her in a makeshift sling is too weak to cry. It has been two days since their mother scrounged up enough maize flour to prepare a small batch of ugali --a gritty porridge. "Please madam, five shillings," she implores the foreigners in a singsong voice, falling into step alongside them.

Nearly 2 1/2 years after the crime, two Kenyan game rangers are to go on trial Monday for the murder of Julie Ward, a British tourist who disappeared while driving alone in a game reserve in September, 1988. Her dismembered and burned remains were found a week later. The case turned into a major embarrassment for the Kenyan government, which at first claimed Ward had been attacked by wild animals or that she had committed suicide.