Saudi man indicted on conspiracy charges

Suspect will aid FBI in probe of Khobar bombing

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Saudi man on charges of conspiring to kill United States citizens for a terrorist organization.

Hani Abdel-Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, who arrived in the United States from Canada on Tuesday, has agreed to cooperate with the FBI in its investigation of the truck bombing in Saudi Arabia last June that killed 19 U.S. airmen.

Saudi dissident al-Sayegh was to appear in court Wednesday afternoon and enter a guilty plea Thursday morning.

The grand jury said al-Sayegh conspired to commit murder and international terrorism, working between January 1994 and December 1995 on a plot to "kill nationals of the United States residing and working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."

The plot was not carried out, U.S. officials said, and the bombing of U.S. military housing at the Khobar Towers last year was a separate incident.

The indictment, which was opened Wednesday morning, also alleged that al-Sayegh received payments from a terrorist organization, recruited another person into the organization and possibly made trips to buy explosives.

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