US embassy bomber jailed for life

A New York jury has spared the life of a terrorist involved in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Tanzania.

A New York jury has spared the life of a terrorist involved in the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Tanzania.

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The same jury spared the life of another defendant last month.

The 27-year-old was convicted of conspiracy in the 1998 bombing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed 11 people.

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He was allegedly part of a terrorist plot ordered by exiled Saudi multi-millionaire Osama bin Laden. A nearly simultaneous blast at a US embassy in Kenya killed 213.

In its third day of deliberations, the 12 anonymous jurors said they could not agree on the death penalty for Mohamed.

The 27-year-old had told FBI agents after his arrest that he had no regrets about the terrorist attack.

The decision concluded a six-month prosecution resulting in convictions against four men involved in the simultaneous bombings of embassies in Tanzania and Kenya - part of an alleged plot by bin Laden to kill Americans worldwide.

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