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Before giving the 36-year-old terrorist life in prison without chance for parole, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Ghailani "knew and intended that people would be killed" in the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A total of 224 people died and thousands were hurt in the attacks.

"The very purpose of the crime was to create terror by causing death and destruction", the judge said.

Ghailani, who was apprehended in Pakistan in 2004 and became the first Guantanamo detainee tried in U.S. civilian court, was convicted by a federal jury in November on a single conspiracy count to destroy buildings and property. He was acquitted on 284 other counts.

"Finally, 12 1/2 years after those devastating and despicable attacks, Ahmed Ghailani will pay for his crimes", CNN quoted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as telling reporters.

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