World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-10-08
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[0:34] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:37] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:40] Peter Jennings.
[0:41] >> Good evening. It is a long and
[0:42] frustrating battle, the one against
[0:44] terrorism. It has been [music] 14 months
[0:46] now since the embassy bombings that
[0:48] killed more than 200 people in Kenya and
[0:50] Tanzania. US authorities have been on a
[0:52] wide-ranging search for the killers and
[0:55] the men who direct them. Today here in
[0:57] New York, they charged a man with
[0:59] playing a central role in the attack on
[1:01] the American embassy in Tanzania. Here's
[1:03] ABC's John Miller.
[1:07] The FBI says Kamish Muhammad waited for
[1:10] the bomb to go off and then took
[1:12] photographs of the carnage before
[1:14] fleeing. Earlier, they say he'd
[1:16] purchased the truck that carried the
[1:17] bomb and rented the house where the bomb
[1:20] was made. When asked in court today if
[1:22] he understood the charges against him,
[1:24] he said, "I understand things used to
[1:27] make a bomb.
[1:28] >> He is charged with direct operational
[1:30] responsibility and the preparation of
[1:32] the bomb for for the embassy."
[1:34] >> Kamish Muhammad's capture was the result
[1:36] of relatively mundane police work. FBI
[1:39] agents went to South Africa to comb