Jesse Aliganga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jesse Aliganga

United States Marine

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1976

Place of Birth: Oakland, California, United States

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1998

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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. Aliganga 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 a 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 224 people and wounding over 4,000.
The attack was later determined to be conducted by the al-Qaeda network and Osama bin Laden.