< snip - main article below >Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl, a Sudanese national and the star witness for the prosecution in the current trial, has been in U.S. custody since 1996, when he turned himself in to an American embassy claiming to have information vital to U.S. national security. Allegedly, he warned an embassy official that a terrorist group wanted “to make war against your country,” but the warning did not prevent the subsequent bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was taken into F.B.I. custody and eventually entered the U.S. witness protection program, where he became the...