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Saudi man gets life in U.S. prison for ties to Africa embassy bombings
Source: Reuters
US | Fri May 15, 2015 12:08pm EDT
Saudi man gets life in U.S. prison for ties to Africa embassy bombings
NEW YORK | BY JOSEPH AX
A Saudi man whom U.S. authorities described as a top Osama bin Laden deputy was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Khalid al-Fawwaz was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan after being convicted of four conspiracy counts in New York in February.
He was not charged with helping to plan the attacks, which killed 224 and injured more than 4,000. Instead, prosecutors said he was bin Laden's "bridge to the West" in London, disseminating the al Qaeda leader's violent messages to media outlets and sending supplies to the group's members in Africa.
U.S. authorities also accused al-Fawwaz of running an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s and helping to establish a cell in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi that later conducted surveillance ahead of the embassy bombing there.
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Saudi man gets life in U.S. prison for ties to Africa embassy bombings
NEW YORK | BY JOSEPH AX
A Saudi man whom U.S. authorities described as a top Osama bin Laden deputy was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Khalid al-Fawwaz was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan after being convicted of four conspiracy counts in New York in February.
He was not charged with helping to plan the attacks, which killed 224 and injured more than 4,000. Instead, prosecutors said he was bin Laden's "bridge to the West" in London, disseminating the al Qaeda leader's violent messages to media outlets and sending supplies to the group's members in Africa.
U.S. authorities also accused al-Fawwaz of running an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s and helping to establish a cell in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi that later conducted surveillance ahead of the embassy bombing there.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/15/us-usa-security-fawwaz-idUSKBN0O01LF20150515