DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The Tanzanian Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani detained by the Pakistani police is one of the three suspects involved in the car bomb attack against the US embassy in Tanzania's Dar es Salaam in 1998.

    The ministry issued a statement saying that 30-year-old Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian national from Kiembesamaki in Zanzibar. He was born on March 19, 1974, on the Indian Ocean island, and his other names include Abubakar Khalfan Ahmed and Shariff Omar Mohamed Ahmed Mfupi.

    Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is suspected to have played the role of purchasing the truck that carried the bomb in the attack against the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam on August 7, 1998, when 11 Tanzanians were killed.

    Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list, was rounded in by the Pakistani police ensuing a shoot-out at Gujrat, 160 kilometers east of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad.

    His co-suspects include Khalifan Khamis Mohamed and Rashid Salehe. Khalifan Khamis is now serving life imprisonment in the US while Rashid Salehe is standing trial in Tanzania.

    A twin car bombing attack on August 7, 1998, killed 224 people in all and injured more than 5,000 others in Nairobi of Kenya and Dar es Salaam. Enditem