A Saudi dissident linked to a bombing that killed 19 U.S. airmen in Saudi Arabia has been charged in a separate earlier plot to kill Americans in Saudi Arabia on behalf of a terrorist organization.
The one-count federal grand jury indictment, unsealed Wednesday, is part of a deal in which Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh has agreed to tell what he knows about the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed the American servicemen. Al-Sayegh was deported here from Canada.The indictment said an unnamed terrorist organization paid al-Sayegh a stipend for his work on the conspiracy. Canadian court documents have said he is a member of Saudi Hezbollah, an offshoot of the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah based in Lebanon.
Al-Sayegh was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. His guilty plea was to be entered in court Thursday morning.