US FEDERAL prosecutors in New York on Monday charged two Egyptian nationals in absentia with conspiring with alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden to bomb US embassies in Africa last year. Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous (42) and Adil Muhammad Abdul al-Majid Bari (39) were accused of conspiring with bin Laden to murder US citizens worldwide. Washington suspects bin Laden, an exiled Saudi-born millionaire, of plotting the August 7, 1998 bomb attacks on its embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed 224 people and injured some 4,000. US officials plan to seek their extradition from Britain, where the two men appeared in a London magistrate’s court on Monday after their arrest on Sunday, according to a spokesman for Manhattan US Attorney Mary Jo White, whose office is prosecuting the case. The latest charges bring to 17 the total number of people who have been charged in the United States in connection to the near-simultaneous bombings.