DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Pakistan has promised to issue travel permits to Tanzanian criminal investigators to go to the country and quiz a suspect on alleged participation in the 1998 bombing attack against the US embassy in Dar es Salaam.

    Tanzanian Criminal Investigation Director Adadi Rajabu told reporters that his officials would soon interrogate Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was rounded up by Pakistani police on July 25 this year, local media reported Friday.

    Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has been identified as one of the three suspects involved in the car bomb attack on Aug. 7 of 1998, when 11 Tanzanians were killed.

    The 30-year-old, from Kiembesamaki in Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, is suspected to have played the role of purchasing the truck that carried the bomb in the attack against the embassy. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's co-suspects include KhalifanKhamis Mohamed and Rashid Salehe.

    Khalifan Khamis Mohamed is now serving a life imprisonment sentence in the United States while Rashid Salehe is standing trial in Tanzania.

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