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March 31st, 2008
Posted: 11:01 AM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Pentagon on Monday announced war crimes charges against an al Qaeda suspect alleged to have been involved in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania that killed 11 people and wounded hundreds. The bombing in Dar es Salaam was one of two carried out nearly simultaneously on August 7, 1998. One in Nairobi, Kenya, killed 213 people. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, from Tanzania, faces nine charges, six of them offenses that could carry the death penalty. He was captured by Pakistan in 2004 and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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