1998News

U.S. consul dead in Africa served in DR

The United States general consul who was killed in the explosion at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya had served in the Dominican Republic. Julian Bartley, consul general in Nairobi and his son, Jay, a 20-year old student at U.S. International University in Nairobi who had been working with his father during the summer. Bartley had 24 years of diplomatic service. He had served in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, Israel, South Korea and Kenya. He was one of a dozen Americans among more than 200 people killed in the bombings, which injured several thousand as bystanders on busy streets were hit by flying debris.