Terrorist Released from U.S. Prison Due to Coronavirus

A terrorist who collaborated with Osama bin Laden was released early from U.S. prison due to coronavirus fears, the New York Post reported Friday.

Adel Abdel Bary, who was responsible for the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is too obese to complete his sentence, a U.S. district court ruled in October.

"Defendant's obesity and somewhat advanced age make COVID-19 significantly more risky to him than to the average person," wrote U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan when granting the terrorist's release.