Khalid al Fawwaz was a critical, top-level conspirator in Osama bin Laden’s war against America, spreading the al Qaida leader’s declarations of hate, training terrorists and leading the terror cell that bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a federal prosecutor told a jury Thursday.
Southern District Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin said Fawwaz was Number 9 on an al Qaida depth chart headed by the late bin Laden, responsible for disseminating his 1996 “bloody” declaration of war that insisted the United States exit the Saudi Arabian peninsula or face the consequences.
