Al Qaida embassy bombers await sentencing

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 men, who include bin Laden’s former personal secretary, were convicted earlier this year for their part in the 1998 bombings of America’s embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people, 12 of them Americans.