The father of the man suspected of being 'Jihadi John' is accused of being one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants and is currently awaiting trial in the US for his part in the bombing of two US embassies in which 224 people died, MailOnline can reveal. On trail: Adel Abdel Bari is accused of plotting the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya Adel Abdel Bari, 54, is now locked up in New York awaiting trial for the bombing of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania after being extradited from Britain along with hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.
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Adel Abdel Bari is awaiting trial in New York for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
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He is the father of  Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, one of the suspects for the execution of American journalist James Foley
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Bari was chosen by current al-Qaeda leader head Ayman al Zawahiri to head the London cell of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in May 1996
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He is being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, with a trial expected to start November
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