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US Embassy Bomber Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
A Tanzanian national convicted of conspiracy in 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam killing 11 people, was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after a jury failed to unanimously agree to award him death sentence on Tuesday.
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, is the second person to be sentenced to life in the almost simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which left 224 people dead and more than 4,000 injured. Twelve among the killed were Americans.
The same jury earlier could not agree on imposing death penalty on Mohamed Rashid Daoud al-Owhali for his role in Nairobi attack.
The jury had convicted four persons in all for conspiring with international terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to kill Americans which resulted in the twin bombings.
The remaining two - Lebanese-American Wadih el Hage and Jordanian Mohamed Sadeek Odeh - are yet to be sentenced.
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