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=
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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



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