NEW YORK, OCT 21: A former US Army sergeant who once served as a key aide of terrorist Osama Bin Laden pleaded guilty here on Friday to charges related to the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa that left 224 people dead.The Egyptian-born defendant told the court that Saudi-born Bin Laden had personally selected the location for a suicide truck bombing at the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, which left 213 people dead 12 of them Americans and injured more than 5,000 others.Appearing at a proceeding in US District Court here, Ali Mohamed (48) entered the guilty plea to charges that include conspiracy to kill US nationals, murder and maim them outside of the United States, and conspiracy to destroy US defence facilities. Mohamed, a naturalised US citizen who served in both the US and Egyptian armies, faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a statement from US district attorney Mary Jo White's office.Mohamed was one of 17 people charged with the near-simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on August 7, 1998.
