Physical evidence and the testimony of witnesses prove that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani “has the blood of hundreds on his hands” from his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, a prosecutor told a federal court jury yesterday.
Methodically summing up the circumstantial case against Mr. Ghailani, Southern District Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Chernoff said in his closing argument that three weeks of evidence has proven that Mr. Ghailani, a Tanzanian, played a pivotal role in acquiring a truck and gas tanks that were refashioned into a bomb driven to the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam and ignited on the morning of Aug. 7, 1998, just 10 minutes after a similar explosion was detonated by an al-Qaida cell in Nairobi.
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