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Events on Thursday 28 November 2002 1
2002Mombasa hotel bombing and airliner attackCoordinated al-Qaeda strikes on Israeli targets in KenyaOn 28 November 2002 suicide bombers drove a vehicle into the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel near Mombasa, killing 13 people, while attackers nearby fired two shoulder-launched missiles at an Israeli charter jet taking off with 261 passengers. The missiles missed. Al-Qaeda claimed both attacks, which came just over four years after its bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi.