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| Wadih el-Hage | |
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| Born | July 25, 1960 Sidon, Lebanon |
| Detained at | ADX Florence |
| Alleged to be a member of | al-Qaeda |
| Charge(s) | Criminal conspiracy Perjury |
| Penalty | Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole plus $33.8 million in restitution. |
| Occupation | Secretary for Osama bin Laden |
| Spouse | April el-Hage |
| Children | 7 |
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.[1]
Struggling financially, he decided to move his family to Quetta, Pakistan, but returned to run the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn after the death of Mustafa Shalabi. While running the al-Kifah Refugee Center he met some of the extremists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. At the time of their trial, he was in Sudan working as a secretary for Osama Bin Laden. In 1996 and 1997, after Bin Laden left Sudan for Afghanistan, el-Hage worked in Nairobi, Kenya. Under the pretense of doing charity work, he organized the al-Qaeda network that planned and carried out the embassy bombing in Nairobi.[2]
El-Hage was indicted[3] and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced[4] to life without parole in 2001. His sentence was overturned in 2008 because it was based on federal mandatory sentencing guidelines invalidated by the US Supreme Court in 2005.[5] He was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2013.[6]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-04-14. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Atkins, Stephen E. (2008). 9/11 Encyclopedia. p. 148.
- ^ Copy of indictment Archived 2001-11-10 at the Library of Congress Web Archives USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
- ^ Four embassy bombers get life Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine, CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001 Posted: 10:58 AM EDT (1458 GMT)
- ^ "Convictions upheld in U.S. embassy bombings in Africa". Reuters. 2008-11-24. Archived from the original on 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
- ^ Buettner, Russ (24 April 2013). "Resentenced to Life in Prison, Terrorist Plans to Appeal". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2017-02-28.