Biden Spox Kirby brushes aside question on compensation for Kenyans and Tanzanians killed alongside Americans, attacks journalist Simon Ateba
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Simon Ateba
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Here is our top story today:?AWhite House spokesperson?John Kirby?was pressed on Tuesday by?Today News Africa?correspondent?Simon Ateba?on the fact that Kenyans and Tanzanians who were killed alongside Americans in two al Qaeda bombings at U.S. embassies in 1998 did not receive any compensation while American citizens and locally employed staff, who made up?a small share?of the 224 dead and more than 4,000 wounded, shared?$335 million.?Kirby brushed aside the question, flared up and attacked the African journalist’s ‘tone’, telling him “I don’t even know where you came from on that one.”