New York - A jury yesterday convicted four followers of the Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a plot to murder US citizens around the world, including the 1998 bombings of two embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, among them 12 Americans. Two of the men now face a death penalty hearing, which may be held today.
The four men - Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali (24), Khalfan Khamis Mohamed (27), Wadih ElHage (40) and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh (36) - were convicted of conspiring to murder US citizens, and officers and employees of US embassies and military facilities after 12 days of deliberations by the jury. It 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.