Editing 2002 Mombasa attacks (section)

=== Investigation ===
As a result of the U.S. embassy bombing in 1998 and the attacks in Mombasa, Kenya-U.S. cooperation between authorities has strengthened. It was a joint effort between Kenya, the U.S., and Israel to apprehend the attackers. They were able to determine that al-Qaeda operatives were behind the attacks due to the similarities between the incidents in Nairobi and Mombasa. The attackers had used [[car bomb]]s sourced from local materials. To plan and coordinate the attacks, al-Qaeda operatives rented houses in affluent neighborhoods to meet up with the non-Kenyan suicide bombers.<ref>Carson, Johnnie. "Kenya: The Struggle against Terrorism." ''Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa'', edited by Robert I. Rotberg, Brookings Institution Press, 2005, pp. 173–192. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt128137.11.</ref>

==== Aftermath ====
In 2003 [[Western world|Western countries]] advised all of their citizens against traveling to Kenya because of the terrorist threat. This negatively impacted Kenya's economy which was based mostly in the tourism industry. Following the advisories and the suspension of [[British Airways]] flights to Nairobi, the [[Economy of Kenya|Kenyan economy]] began losing nearly $130 million per week.<ref name=":0" />