Mohammed Saddiq Odeh

The U.S. government offered a $2-million reward for a fugitive charged with killing 12 Americans by helping plan the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya. The fugitive, identified as Haroun Fazil, is the third suspect charged publicly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in the Aug. 7 bombing that killed more than 250 people, including the 12 Americans. U.S. Atty.

The U.S. government offered a $2-million reward for a fugitive charged with killing 12 Americans by helping plan the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya. The fugitive, identified as Haroun Fazil, is the third suspect charged publicly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in the Aug. 7 bombing that killed more than 250 people, including the 12 Americans. U.S. Atty.

Less than three weeks after American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, legal steps have been taken in New York that could lead to the death penalty or life in prison for two suspects now in custody. Credit for the swift apprehension of Mohammed Rashed Daoud Owhali, a Yemeni, and Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, believed to be a Palestinian or Jordanian, goes to authorities in Kenya and Pakistan. Owhali was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, two days after the bombings.

Every day, two gigantic buses lurch and bounce over hundreds of miles on a bone-jarring dirt road before making a brief, dusty stop in Witu. To the people of this predominantly African Muslim village, these rugged buses are vital links to the outside world, so they happily throw out the welcome mat. But last week, the outside world tromped on that welcome mat, as FBI agents and Kenyan police armed with automatic weapons roared into the village looking for clues to solve the Aug.

A second suspect in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya has admitted he belonged to a terrorist organization headed by exiled Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, according to an FBI complaint unsealed Friday, and has accepted responsibility for the loss of life in the blast. Mohammed Saddiq Odeh denied that he was directly involved in the Aug. 7 explosion and in the almost simultaneous bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania.

Every day, two gigantic buses lurch and bounce over hundreds of miles on a bone-jarring dirt road before making a brief, dusty stop in Witu. To the people of this predominantly African Muslim village, these rugged buses are vital links to the outside world, so they happily throw out the welcome mat. But last week, the outside world tromped on that welcome mat, as FBI agents and Kenyan police armed with automatic weapons roared into the village looking for clues to solve the Aug.

For four years, Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, also known as Sadik Howaida and internationally suspected as the chief bomber of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, quietly plied his fishing trade along the Indian Ocean coast in eastern Africa. He would buy fish in this tourist town of 500,000 and sell them farther south in Mombasa, relatives of his wife said Saturday during an interview that revealed details of the private life of a previously unknown man who has suddenly become a character in a global drama.

A federal grand jury here returned a massive indictment Wednesday charging four disciples of Islamic militant Osama bin Laden with participating in a terrorist plot to kill Americans. The plot allegedly included the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on Aug. 7 and the training of militias that attacked American soldiers in Somalia in 1993. The 238-count indictment represents the most comprehensive account so far in the U.S.

Flanked by top Clinton administration officials, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh announced Thursday that U.S. agents had brought a confessed terrorist and would-be suicide bomber to New York and charged him with the murders of the 12 Americans who died in the attack three weeks ago on the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. A second suspect in the alleged conspiracy was reportedly in American hands as well, with an official statement about his status expected imminently.

In the early months of 1996, agents working in the windowless white cubbyholes of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center made a strategic decision. A joint CIA-FBI investigation into the misdeeds of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef had uncovered a treasure of unexpected data about someone the agents concluded was even more dangerous. His name was Osama bin Laden.

A second suspect in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya has admitted he belonged to a terrorist organization headed by exiled Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, according to an FBI complaint unsealed Friday, and has accepted responsibility for the loss of life in the blast. Mohammed Saddiq Odeh denied that he was directly involved in the Aug. 7 explosion and in the almost simultaneous bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania.

Less than three weeks after American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, legal steps have been taken in New York that could lead to the death penalty or life in prison for two suspects now in custody. Credit for the swift apprehension of Mohammed Rashed Daoud Owhali, a Yemeni, and Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, believed to be a Palestinian or Jordanian, goes to authorities in Kenya and Pakistan. Owhali was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, two days after the bombings.

For four years, Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, also known as Sadik Howaida and internationally suspected as the chief bomber of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, quietly plied his fishing trade along the Indian Ocean coast in eastern Africa. He would buy fish in this tourist town of 500,000 and sell them farther south in Mombasa, relatives of his wife said Saturday during an interview that revealed details of the private life of a previously unknown man who has suddenly become a character in a global drama.

The United States indicted Saudi militant Osama bin Laden and his top military commander Wednesday on 224 counts of conspiracy to commit murder for their alleged involvement in the August bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. officials offered a $5-million reward for information leading to the suspects' capture. The grand jury also charged Bin Laden in an October 1993 attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, that killed 18 U.S.