DATE=8/27/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-237792
TITLE=F-B-I BOMBING ARREST (L)
BYLINE=NICK SIMEONE
DATELINE=WASHINGTON
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: U-S AUTHORITIES HAVE FLOWN TWO SUSPECTS -- INCLUDING A
NATIVE OF YEMEN -- TO THE UNITED STATES TO FACE TRIAL FOR THE
AUGUST SEVENTH BOMBING OF THE U-S EMBASSY IN KENYA THAT KILLED
MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 12 AMERICANS. CORRESPONDENT NICK
SIMEONE REPORTS U-S OFFICIALS SAY ONE OF THE SUSPECTS HAS BEEN
CHARGED WITH MURDER AFTER ADMITTING TO RECEIVING TRAINING IN
SUSPECTED TERRORIST CAMPS IN AFGHANISTAN.
TEXT: F-B-I DIRECTOR LOUIS FREEH ANNOUNCED RASHED DAOUD
AL-OWHALI (ALSO KNOWN AS MOHAMED KHALID) WAS ESCORTED FROM KENYA
TO THE UNITED STATES WEDNESDAY TO FACE 12 COUNTS OF MURDER -- ONE
COUNT FOR EVERY AMERICAN KILLED IN THE NAIROBI BLAST -- AS WELL
AS CHARGES OF USING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
THE F-B-I DIRECTOR SAYS THE SUSPECT ADMITTED TO RECEIVING
TRAINING IN SUSPECTED TERRORIST CAMPS IN AFGHANISTAN AFFILIATED
WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE EXILED SAUDI NATIONAL CONSIDERED THE
KEY SUSPECT IN THE KENYAN AND TANZANIAN EMBASSY BOMBINGS.
// FREEH ACT //
THE DEFENDANT STATED THAT HE WAS TRAINED IN EXPLOSIVES,
HIJACKING AND KIDNAPPING, ACCORDING TO THE COMPLAINT.
IT ALSO SAID THE DEFENDANT STATED HE ATTENDED
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH BIN
LADEN AND THAT HE WAS AWARE THAT BIN LADEN HAD SIGNED A
FATWA STATING QUOTE -- 'IT WAS PROPER TO KILL AMERICANS
WORLDWIDE.'
// END ACT //
THE F-B-I DIRECTOR SAYS OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE BOMBINGS BUT SAYS HE REMAINS A PRIMARY
SUBJECT IN THE ON-GOING INVESTIGATION.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ARREST OF THE YEMENI SUSPECT CAME JUST THREE
WEEKS AFTER THE DEADLY EMBASSY BLASTS -- AND, U-S OFFICIALS, SAY
WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE KENYAN GOVERNMENT. WITH SENIOR U-S
OFFICIALS INCLUDING SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AT HER
SIDE, U-S ATTORNEY MARY JO WHITE DETAILED SOME OF THE EVIDENCE
AGAINST THE DEFENDANT.
// WHITE ACT //
THE BOMB PLOT ALLEGEDLY CALLED FOR THE DEFENDANT TO DIE
AS A MARTYR IN THE BLAST. BUT HE SURVIVED, SUSTAINING
INJURIES TO HIS FACE, HAND AND BACK. PRIOR TO BEING
CONTACTED BY THE KENYAN AUTHORITIES ON AUGUST NINTH, THE
DEFENDANT WAS TREATED AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE
ALLEGEDLY DISCARDED IN THE HOSPITAL BATHROOM TWO KEYS TO
A PADLOCK ON THE BOMB VEHICLE AND THREE BULLETS FROM A
GUN HE LEFT IN THE BOMB VEHICLE.
// END ACT //
IF CONVICTED OF MURDER, MOHAMED RASHED DAOUD AL-OWHALI COULD FACE
THE DEATH PENALTY.
F-B-I DIRECTOR FREEH SUGGESTED OTHER DEVELOPMENTS -- INCLUDING
D/E/T/A/I/L/S OF A SECOND SUSPECT -- MAY BE ANNOUNCED IN THE
COMING DAYS. THERE ARE MANY LEADS IN THIS CASE, HE SAID, ONE
THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO CALLED THE MOST EXTENSIVE OVERSEAS
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY. (SIGNED)
NEB/NJS/PT
27-Aug-98 8:02 PM EDT (0002 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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