Four followers of suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. “This is a time not for eloquence, but for justice,” the judge said during Thursday’s sentencing hearing in a courtroom less than a mile from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
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