Bin Laden Ally Admits Role in US African Embassy Bombings

The father of a British rapper suspected of beheading an American journalist pleaded guilty in a US court on Friday to planning the 1998 bombings of two embassies in Africa that killed hundreds of people. Adel Abdel Bary admitted to a New York judge that he collaborated with Osama bin Laden and others to blow up the US diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania. The blasts killed 224 people. The 54-year-old Egyptian was extradited from Britain to the U.S. in 2012. He acted largely as a...

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