DATE=9/28/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-239404
TITLE=EMBASSY BOMBING INDICTMENTS (L ONLY)
BYLINE=LARRY FREUND
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
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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)

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28-Sep-98 7:27 PM EDT (2327 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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