Wadih Elias el-Hage ( , '' Wadī ‘ al-Ḥāj '' ) ( born July 25 , 1960 ) is a Lebanese-born American former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings . He was indicted and arrested in 1998 , and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001 . His sentence was overturned in 2008 because it was based on federal mandatory sentencing guidelines invalidated by the US Supreme Court in 2005 . He was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2013 . El-Hage and his co-defendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
Wadih el-Hage