Nairobi embassy bomber Mohamed Rashed “Al Owhali had received lacerations on his hand and face and a large wound on his back from the explosion; he went to a medical clinic to have them treated. He was sent to a hospital where, two days after the bombing [August 9, 1998], Kenyan police questioned him because he did not have proper papers. Arrested, he confessed that he had met bin Laden during training camps in Afghanistan. He had been with bin Laden at the al Badr press conference three months earlier, in May, where he apparently received his mission: to be a martyr on behalf of the Army of Liberation of the Islamic Holy Lands.”
– Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 134