A jury has convicted four followers of Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a plot to murder US citizens around the world, including the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, among them 12 Americans.
Two of the men now face a death penalty hearing, expected tomorrow.
A jury of seven women and five men found Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, 24, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, Wadih El-Hage, 40, and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, 36, guilty of conspiring to murder US citizens, and officers and employees of US embassies and military facilities.
After 12 days of deliberations, the jury also found two of the defendants, al-'Owhali and Mohamed, guilty of charges that expose them to the death penalty for their part in the explosions that ripped through the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The verdict marks the first US conviction of anyone charged with crimes stemming from Bin Laden's activities.
Bin Laden, who has been indicted as the mastermind behind the bombings, is one of the America's most wanted criminals.
He is believed to be in Afghanistan and the US government is offering a five million dollar reward for information leading to his arrest.
The Saudi exile has been suspected of involvement in other plots against Americans, including a 1999 scheme to bomb millennium celebrations in the United States and last October's attack in Yemen on the USS Cole.
But the embassy bombing case is the only one in which bin Laden has been indicted or in which defendants have formally been accused of joining in his schemes.