Egyptian to plead guilty over U.S. embassy bombings

  • 10 years ago
Sixteen years after deadly bombings ripped through two U.S. embassies in East Africa, another guilty plea is on the way.

Adel Abdul Bary, told a federal court in New York on Friday that he would plead guilty to charges connected with the attacks.

The charges include conspiracy to make a threat to use an explosive device, making a threat to use an explosive device, and conspiracy to murder Americans.

The August 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people and wounded thousands.

Bary faces a maximum sentence of up to 25 years in prison.