U.S. Embassy bomb trial hears testimony

Grown men wept and a Marine sergeant recalled being blown off his feet as they testified yesterday in New York about the bombing of two United States embassies. A day of dramatic of testimony recreated for the jury the terrifying moment at 10:30 am on Friday, August 7, 1998, when truck bombs slammed almost simultaneously into the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing 224 people and wounding thousands. "I remember saying a short prayer. I said 'God, please help me,'" embassy worker George Mimba said. "I knew my time was up." Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the accused, faces 286 counts, including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction.

(Published by National Post – October 14, 2010)