U.S. Embassy bomber dies from brain clot

Samir Yahya Awad al-Dara’ei, who was convicted of attacking the U.S. embassy with two grenades in 2002, died on Saturday due to a brain clot, said Motahar Ali Naji al-Shuaibi, manager of the central prison.   Al-Shuaibi said that the convict died on Saturday morning in the prison’s infirmary after experiencing a major blood clot in his brain.

The Socialist Party website reported that al-Shuaibi had died of a poison injection.

Doctors had treated him before his death, for an injury to his leg. “The corpse has been sent to Al-Jumhuria hospital for autopsy and to determine the cause of death, according to the prosecutorial decision,” added al-Shuaibi. 

The Specialized Criminal Court convicted al-Dara’ei because he threw sound grenades at the wall of the U.S. embassy in March 2002.

The court ruled to jail him for ten years, but the Appeal Court reduced the judgment to seven years. He died just nine months before completing his sentence.

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