Bin Laden Bombers Face Death Penalty
A Federal jury in Manhattan found four men guilty of all 304 criminal counts related to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people. The jury decided all four participated in a broad conspiracy by followers of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, now resident in Afghanistan, to murder American citizens and attack U.S. property worldwide. Two of the defendants, Saudi citizen Mohammed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali and Tanzanian Khalfan Khamis Mohammed, were convicted of murder. The jury may impose the death penalty on...
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