Mombasa terror attacks

Witness History

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In 2002, journalist Kelly Hartog was on a press trip in Mombasa, in Kenya, when suicide bombers drove a car packed with explosives into the hotel where she was staying. The attack killed 18 people and injured 80. Almost at the same time, terrorists tried to bring down an Israeli charter jet using surface-to-air missiles – but narrowly missed. Kelly tells Vicky Farncombe about her ordeal. (Photo: People stand outside the Paradise Hotel after it was attacked by suicide bombers. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading the witness history podcast with me, Vicki Fankham.
0:10.0	Today I'm taking you back 20 years to a terror attack in Kenya which killed 18 people
0:16.4	and injured 80.
0:17.8	There were kids crying, there were kids leading that to me it was really important to
0:24.6	help those kids and I think some consciously you know when you're focused on
0:28.6	someone else you're not focused on oh my gosh what the hell is happening.
0:33.2	That's Kelly Hartog.
0:35.2	In 2002 she was working hard as a reporter on the Jerusalem post and she really
0:41.0	needed a holiday.
0:42.2	Jerusalem was at the centre of terror attacks all the time so a lot of the time
0:47.3	we were covering terror.
0:48.6	Suicide bombings, shootings, we were tendering funerals we were running to
0:53.4	hospitals it was pretty crazy time.
0:56.0	So when her editor off to the chance to go on a press trip to Kenya Kelly
1:01.0	jumped at it.
1:02.0	I was so excited because this was more than just like a couple of days
1:06.2	junk it we were going to go on a safari for seven days so I was I was
1:10.4	really really excited.
1:12.0	The destination.
1:13.6	Mombasa is Kenya's leading beach resort.
1:16.2	The beaches are the picture postcard white sands fringed by palm trees
1:20.0	and washed by the warm Indian ocean.
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