Osama bin Laden’s former London spokesman is set to return to Britain a free man after being released from jail in the US because of concerns about COVID-19 in prison.
Adel Abdel Bary is obese and suffers from asthma and is highly prone to coronavirus infection.
Bary, 60, was convicted for taking part in the terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 and wounded dozens in 1998.
A year later he was arrested in Britain and eventually extradited to the US after a protracted legal battle. He agreed to a plea deal that involved admitting three charges, including conspiracy to murder US citizens abroad.
In 2015 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison but consideration was given to the 16 years he had already spent in custody.
Bary had been charged with 285 offenses, eventually pleaded guilty to just a handful, including threatening to kill by means of explosives and conspiracy to murder US citizens abroad.
Notably, he was born in Egypt but granted asylum in Britain in the early 1990s.
He is currently in a US immigration and customs enforcement detention facility until he is sent back to the UK.
