THE United States embassy building in central Nairobi, which was the scene of the August 7 1998 bomb blast in which over 250 people including 11 Americans died, will be demolished ”n the near future”. US ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell was on quoted Sunday by the Nairobi-based Sunday Standard as confirming that the building will be torn down after engineers confirmed that it is no longer safe for habitation. She added that there is so much emotion attached to the scene and some people would like to see a monument erected on the site. Bushnell confirmed that Washington has purchased a building in the industrial area of the city, along the main Nairobi-Mombasa highway, where the embassy will be temporarily transferred until an appropriate location is identified.