Four members of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida organisation were being sentenced today just a few hundred yards from the World Trade Centre for their part in terrorist attacks in 1998.

The promised information tying Osama bin Laden to the US terrorist attacks is likely to fit into a chain of evidence formed while prosecuting those involved in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa.

A follower of Osama bin Laden received life in prison without parole for the deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya after a New York jury was deadlocked amid concerns that imposing a death penalty would create a martyr.