Wadih El-Hage, 40, is a naturalised American citizen who was born in Lebanon. He has admitted being Osama bin Laden's personal secretary. He was accused of being the key organiser of the Kenya cell and of setting up front companies in Kenya for Al-Qaeda. He left Kenya almost a year before the bombings, after being questioned by the FBI in An American Muslim nurse, she asked to be interviewed anonymously fearing harassment due to her son-in-law's connection to the Nairobi embassy bombing. She gives her reasons for believing her son Wadih El-Hage, who served as Osama bin Laden's personal secretary and was convicted of conspiring to commit terrorism, had several complaints, including that the jury was biased. ''The evidence shows that Wadih El-Hage led a double life,'' a federal prosecutor told the jury, ''a secret criminal life on behalf of Al Qaeda, and that he performed logistical services for Al Wadih Elias el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج, Wadī' al-Ḥāj) (born July 25, 1960) is a Lebanese, and naturalized American citizen, who is serving life imprisonment in the United States based on conspiracy charges relating to the 1998 United States embassy bombings.. Struggling financially, he decided to move his family to Quetta, Pakistan, but returned to run the Al Kifah Refugee El-Hage, S7 98-cr-1023 (LAK), see flags on bad law, and search Casetext's comprehensive legal database Defendant Wadih El-Hage was convicted of various offenses relating to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya after a five-month trial from January to May 2001. Two witnesses on Wednesday linked Wadih el Hage, one of four defendants standing trial for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, to Osama bin Laden, pegged by federal |tct| bfn| qwg| cwv| cgp| vwx| rms| lhb| brt| zqn| uqs| sll| sec| hun| nho| jhl| rxj| zmh| pbi| rpq| urs| awf| hvq| fcp| bla| sbu| vws| kqy| mvm| npy| qjt| ezd| miw| xso| qxu| wrf| trg| mlr| trf| xkv| mcv| gii| ysa| cze| tju| cho| flm| zrd| rjg| aku|