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2015-02-07 Home Front: WoT
Egyptian jailed in US over Africa embassy bombings
[Al Ahram] An Egyptian man was sentenced to 25 years in a US prison Friday for conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa, which left 224 people dead.

Adel Abdel Bary -- who was extradited to the United States from Britannia in 2012 -- pleaded guilty last September on three counts of working for Al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
In 1997 and 1998, Bary headed up the London cell of Egyptian Islamic Jihad -- then led by Ayman al-Zawahiri
... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
, who is now head of Al-Qaeda -- and the two groups essentially merged.

Bary passed to journalists Al-Qaeda's claim of responsibility for the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which left more than 5,000 others maimed.

He also passed on threats of future Al-Qaeda attacks that were sent from London to media organizations in La Belle France, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
and the United Arab Emirates the day after the embassy bombings.

The August 7, 1998 boom-mobileing of the US embassy in Nairobi killed 213 people and maimed another 5,000.

A near simultaneous truck bomb outside the US mission in Tanzania killed 11 people and maimed 70 more.

Federal judge Lewis Kaplan told Bary that the sentence would allow him to return to his family and live out the remainder of his life in freedom, a privilege not extended to his victims.

Bary has already spent 16 years in British and US custody.

"I would like to say I feel sorry for all the victims," he told the judge, speaking through a translator.

"If I could just do something to bring the victims back, I would," he added.

Bary's son, former London rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, is now believed to have joined hard boyz fighting in Syria.

By pleading guilty, Bary avoided spending the rest of his life behind bars.

His alleged co-conspirator -- Saudi exile Khalid al-Fawwaz, the purported chief of the London Al-Qaeda cell -- is currently on trial in New York.

A third co-conspirator, Libyan defendant Abu Anas al-Libi, died in jug last month from natural causes.
Posted by Fred 2015-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
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