DATE=10/8/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=EMBASSY TERROR ARREST / U-S (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-254822
BYLINE=ELAINE JOHANSON
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: Another man arrested in connection with last
year's attacks on U-S embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
-- bombings that killed 224 people -- was arraigned in
a U-S federal court in New York today (Friday). V-O-A
correspondent Elaine Johanson reports:
TEXT: Twenty-six-year-old Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a
citizen of Tanzania, has been charged specifically
with actions leading directly to the bombing of the
U-S embassy in Dar Es Salaam. He is said to have
rented a house used as a base of operations and bomb-
factory for the atack in Tanzania. He is also charged
with purchasing a white utility vehicle allegedly used
by the conspirators as they were hatching [devising]
the plot.
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed was apprehended by police in
Cape Town, South Africa, where he was living under an
assumed name. He was turned over to U-S law-
enforcement officials and arrived in New York late
Thursday. He pleaded "not guilty" in a court
appearance Friday.
Khalfan Khamis Mohamed is the first to be captured of
five people indicted in New York last June in
connection with the bombings. U-S Attorney Mary Jo
White says the arrest should be a stark reminder to
the others that their turn will come:
/// WHITE ACT ///
The F-B-I [Federal Bureau of Investigation], New
York City Police Department Joint Terrorist Task
Force and law-enforcement authorities literally
around the world will not stop investigating,
searching, capturing and prosecuting until all
responsible are brought to justice.
/// END ACT ///
Seventeen people have been indicted for the embassy
bombings. Nine are in custody -- six in New York,
three in London. The remaining eight are fugitives,
with a five-million-dollar bounty on their heads. All
have been linked to a terrorist network run by Osama
bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of a plot to kill
U-S nationals, who is believed to be hiding in
Afghanistan.
A trial has been set for September fifth in the year
2000. U-S law enforcement officials ideally would
like to have all 17 defendants together in the
courtroom. (Signed)
NEB/NY/EJ/LSF/WTW
08-Oct-1999 14:47 PM EDT (08-Oct-1999 1847 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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