Khalfan Khamis Mohamed
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Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a Tanzanian national, was indicted on December 16, 1998, in the Southern District Court of New York, for his alleged participation in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, and for conspiring to kill U.S. nationals. He allegedly received training in Afghanistan. It is believed that Mohamed assembled the Tanzanian bomb and flew to South Africa shortly after the bombing.
On October 5, 1999, he was arrested in Cape Town, South Africa.
On November 2, 2000, Mohamed and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (another al-Qaeda member) attacked a federal prison guard in a failed escape attempt. The officer was critically injured, having been stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb, and suffered severe brain damage from the attack.[1]
In February 2001, his trial began in New York. Mohamed was convicted on all counts on May 29, 2001. During the sentencing phase, prosecutors argued for him to be sentenced to capital punishment, due to the continuing threat he posed to prison guards.[1] On October 18, 2001, Mohamed was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Weiser, Benjamin. "Pondering Terrorist's Execution, Jury Weighs Notes Found in Cell", The New York Times, June 22, 2001.
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