DATE=9/28/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-239404
TITLE=EMBASSY BOMBING INDICTMENTS (L ONLY)
BYLINE=LARRY FREUND
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: TWO SUSPECTS IN THE BOMBINGS LAST MONTH OF THE U-S
EMBASSIES IN KENYA AND TANZANIA WERE INDICTED TODAY (MONDAY) IN
NEW YORK ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRING TO BOMB THE EMBASSIES AND TO
MURDER AMERICANS AND OTHER CIVILIANS. V-O-A'S CORRESPONDENT
LARRY FREUND REPORTS.
TEXT: THE TWO MEN -- IDENTIFIED BY U-S AUTHORITIES AS MOHAMED
SADEEK ODEH AND MOHAMED RASHED DAOUD AL-OWHALI -- WERE FLOWN TO
THE UNITED STATES WITHIN WEEKS OF THE AUGUST SEVENTH BOMBINGS IN
NAIROBI AND DAR ES SALAAM. THE INDICTMENT CHARGES THAT THE MEN
CONSPIRED TO BOMB THE EMBASSIES WITH EXPLOSIVES AND CAUSED THE
DEATH OF MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE -- INCLUDING KENYAN, TANZANIAN AND
AMERICAN CITIZENS -- AND INJURED MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND OTHERS.
THE INDICTMENT SAYS MR. ODEH AND MR. AL-OWHALI ACTED TOGETHER
WITH MEMBERS OF A GROUP IDENTIFIED AS "AL QAEDA," WHICH IT
DESCRIBES AS A WORLDWIDE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LED BY USAMA BIN
LADEN, A SAUDI ARABIAN NATIONAL. PROSECUTORS SAY THE AIM OF THE
GROUP IS THE KILLING OF AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL STATIONED IN
SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN, SOMALIA AND ELSEWHERE AND THE KILLING OF
AMERICAN CIVILIANS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
THE U-S PROSECUTOR IN NEW YORK, MARY JO WHITE, PRAISED THE
GOVERNMENTS OF KENYA, TANZANIA AND THE COMOROS ISLANDS FOR
COOPERATING WITH U-S INVESTIGATORS. SHE SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THE
BOMBING ATTACKS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN AIMED AT UNITED STATES
INTERESTS, IT WAS NOT ONLY THE LIVES OF AMERICANS WHICH WERE
DESTROYED IN THE RUBBLE OF THE EMBASSIES. SHE ADDED THAT U-S
AUTHORITIES INTEND TO VINDICATE EVERY PERSON WHO LOST THEIR LIFE
OR THAT OF A LOVED ONE IN THE BOMBINGS. TODAY, SHE SAID, MARKS
THE NEXT STEP IN THE PROCESS OF BRINGING THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR
THIS TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO JUSTICE.
(SIGNED)
NEB/NY/LSF/PT
28-Sep-98 7:27 PM EDT (2327 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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