4 sentenced in embassy bombings case

NEW YORK, OCT. 18. Four terrorist followers of Osama bin Laden, convicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, were sentenced to life without parole on Thursday.

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed(28), of Tanzania, was the first of the four defendants sentenced in a Manhattan courthouse heavily fortified by shotgun-toting marshals; he was quickly followed by Mohamed Al-Owhali(24), of Saudi Arabia.

They were replaced before the Bench by Mohamed Sadeek Odeh(36), of Jordan, and Wadih El-Hage(41), who each received life without parole. Both were convicted of lesser roles and had been eligible for lesser sentences. El-Hage, a former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden, is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon.

- AP

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