Jesse Aliganga Military person

Jesse Nathanael "Nathan" Aliganga (October 17, 1976 – August 7, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps security guard who was killed in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya. He was the only U.S. Marine killed in the bombings.Aligana was working at the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. On August 7, 1998, at the age of 21, Aliganga was killed by a car-bomb explosion, along with eleven fellow Americans, in the suicide bomb attack. Aliganga was the only U.S. Marine who was killed in the attack in Kenya. This was part of a simultaneous suicide bomb attack in which car bombs were exploded at U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing 257 people and wounding over 4,000. The attack was later determined to be conducted by the al-Qaeda network and Osama bin Laden.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Aliganga Jesse; Aliganga Nathan
Birth date	October 17, 1976
Birth place	Oakland California
Date of death	August 07, 1998
Place of death	Nairobi , Kenya

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Military person

award	Purple Heart
military operations	1998 United States embassy bombings
military branch	United States Marine Corps
military unit	Marine Security Guard
service start	1995
service end	1998