Witness Testifies He Left Al-Qaeda Over Payment of Wife’s Care
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A former al-Qaeda member testified at a terrorism trial in New York that he left the group after it failed to pay for his pregnant wife’s medical care and later began cooperating with a U.S. probe of two embassy bombings.
L’Houssaine Kherchtou, 46, a Moroccan, testified yesterday for the second day in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of assisting in al-Qaeda’s bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The 1998 attacks killed 224 people, including 12 U.S. citizens. Prosecutors say he helped buy the truck that was used to deliver the bomb to the embassy in Dar es Salaam. The resulting explosion left 11 people dead.