Egyptian National to Be Sentenced for 1998 US Embassy Bombings

US District Judge announced the Egyptian 54-year-old man, who admitted to three charges of conspiring to kill US nationals in connection with the bombings at US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, is to sentenced in New York on Friday.

NEW YORK, January 16 (Sputnik) — The Egyptian man who pleaded guilty to charges relating to two 1998 US embassies bombings in East Africa is due to be sentenced in New York on Friday, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in a pre-trial hearing.

Adel Abdul Bary, 54, entered a guilty plea before a US district court in New York last September in connection with the truck bombings at US embassies in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The August 7, 1998 twin attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and wounded over 4,500.

On September 19, 2014, Bary admitted to three charges of conspiring to kill US nationals, conspiring to use explosives in the murder and destruction of property, as well as threatening to carry out these acts.

UK authorities arrested Bary in connection with the attacks in September 1998 and again in July 1999, when he was charged by US prosecutors. He was extradited to New York in October 2012.

Earlier this month, another defendant in the bombing case who was scheduled to stand trial with an accomplice on Monday died in custody. A total of 21 people linked to the al-Qaeda Islamist group were charged with the deadly US embassy bombings 16 years ago. Six of the convicted militants are serving life sentences in the United States, while eight — including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri — have been killed by the US military in the years since 2001.