DATE=7/12/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-251666
TITLE=BOMBING ARRESTS  (L)
BYLINE=LAURIE KASSMAN
DATELINE=LONDON
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  TWO EGYPTIANS HAVE APPEARED IN A LONDON COURT ON CHARGES 
OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.  AS CORRESPONDENT LAURIE KASSMAN REPORTS
FROM LONDON, A U-S WARRANT FOR EXTRADITION OF THE TWO MEN ACCUSES
THEM OF BOMBING TWO AMERICAN EMBASSIES LAST YEAR IN AFRICA. 

TEXT:  THE TWO MEN APPEARED IN A LONDON COURT TO START THE 
EXTRADITION CASE AGAINST THEM.  BRITISH AUTHORITIES HAVE 
IDENTIFIED THE MEN AS IBRAHIM HUSSEIN ABDEL HADI EIDAROUS AND 
ABEL MOHAMMED ABDUL ALMAGID BARY.  THEY WERE ARRESTED SUNDAY 
AFTER THE U-S GOVERNMENT ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR THEIR 
EXTRADITION. 

U-S AUTHORITIES ARE LINKING THE TWO MEN TO THE 1998 BOMBINGS OF 
THE U-S EMBASSIES IN NAIROBI AND DAR ES SALAAM.  MORE THAN 
220-PEOPLE DIED IN THE TWO TERRORIST ATTACKS, MORE THAN 
FIVE-THOUSAND WERE INJURED.

LAWYERS FOR THE U-S GOVERNMENT TOLD THE COURT THEY HAVE EVIDENCE 
THE TWO MEN WERE INVOLVED IN THE 1998 EMBASSY BOMBINGS.  BOTH MEN
HAVE DENIED THE CHARGES.

THE MEN ARE BEING CHARGED WITH CONSPIRING WITH A SAUDI ISLAMIC 
MILITANT, OSAMA BIN LADEN, TO MURDER AMERICANS.  

A SAUDI CITIZEN, WHO ALSO IS LINKED TO OSAMA BIN LADEN, WAS 
ARRESTED IN LONDON LAST SEPTEMBER AND ALSO FACES EXTRADITION  TO 
THE UNITED STATES ON SIMILAR CHARGES.

U-S AUTHORITIES ACCUSE OSAMA BIN LADEN OF FINANCING AND 
MASTERMINDING THE ATTACKS IN KENYA AND TANZANIA.  THE U-S 
GOVERNMENT ALSO HAS ACCUSED THE ALLEGED TERRORIST OF ATTACKS 
AGAINST U-S PERSONNEL IN SAUDI ARABIA AND SOMALIA.

THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION HAS PUT OSAMA BIN LADEN ON 
ITS LIST OF THE 10 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS.  A FIVE-MILLION DOLLAR 
REWARD HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR HIS CAPTURE.  

OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN BASED IN AFGHANISTAN AND ALLEGEDLY RUNS 
A NETWORK OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.   
(SIGNED)

NEB/LMK/JWH/RAE

12-Jul-99 9:44 AM EDT (1344 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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