The bodies of 11 U.S. citizens killed in the Kenya blast arrive in Germany

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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (CNN) -- The bodies of 11 Americans killed in the worst terrorist attack on a U.S. embassy arrived in Germany early Tuesday on the first stop of their journey home to the United States.

The flag-shrouded coffins were solemnly unloaded off a C-141 aircraft at Ramstein Air Base with a military honor guard standing by with flags.

The bodies will be kept at a nearby U.S. hospital in Landstuhl until they are flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Wednesday.

Jean Dalizu, the 12th American killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, was married to a Kenyan and will be buried in her adopted homeland.

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will fly to Germany to accompany the bodies of the American victims back to the United States and to meet some of the survivors of the blast.

President Clinton and Albright will speak Thursday at an 11 a.m. ET ceremony when the bodies of the Americans arrive in the United States.

Meanwhile, the White House said Clinton would cut short a trip to the West Coast to return to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the bombing of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with his foreign policy advisers.

Spokesman Joe Lockhart said Clinton planned to fly back to Washington from Los Angeles on Tuesday night.

Clinton observes a moment of silence for the victims of the bombings

The U.S. government is offering a reward of up to $2 million for information leading to the arrest of those who bombed the embassies last week, Albright said Monday while addressing a meeting of State Department employees.

Dressed in black, Albright said the government was preparing a budget request to enable the State Department to rebuild the shattered embassy buildings and improve security at U.S. posts around the world.

She said the administration also would be consulting with representatives of the Kenyan and Tanzanian peoples "to determine appropriate ways to support them in this time of loss."

While delivering a policy speech in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday, Clinton called for a moment of silence to commemorate the nearly 200 people killed in the bombings.

He also reaffirmed U.S. efforts to find the perpetrators.

"We will do whatever we can to bring the murderers to justice," he told an audience at Louisville's Commonwealth Convention Center.

He said there had "never been a time in history when we have been free of the organized forces of destruction."

But he said the United States could never give in to such violence and would have to resist and fight it in the future.

"We must be strong in dealing with this. We must not be deterred by the threat of other action. There is no way out if we start running away from this kind of conduct. We have to build a civilized, open world for the 21st century," Clinton said.