New York - A Saudi man was sentenced yesterday to life imprisonment for his role in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya that killed 213 people.
Mohamed Rashed Daoud al'Owhali (24) had been convicted with three others on May 29th of conspiring with exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to kill Americans in a plot including the 1998 twin bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dares-Salaam, Tanzania.
The two explosions killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 4,000.
The jury in Manhattan Federal Court sentenced him to life imprisonment without parole.