US embassy bomber jailed for life

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.

After five days of deliberations, jurors said yesterday they could not agree that Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali deserved to die for his role in the August 7, 1998, attack on the embassy at Nairobi that killed 213 people and wounded thousands.