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Simultaneous Attacks Target Israelis in Kenya

NPR | By Linda Gradstein
Published November 28, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

In simultaneous attacks, suicide bombers strike at an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, killing 12 other people, and two missiles target an Israeli charter flight leaving Mombasa airport. Meanwhile, gunmen open fire at a polling station in northern Israel, killing six Israelis. Hear the Kelly Hartog of The Jerusalem Post, the BBC's Cathy Jenkins, Daniel Benjamin of CSIS and NPR's Linda Gradstein.

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Linda Gradstein
Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.
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