bombing anywhere in the world. >> reporter: they say that he left in sudan in the mid 1990s, but there's no indication that he completely severed ties with al qaeda. and the indictment says he helped plan the attacks before leaving. they say al liby the conducted photographic surveillance of the united states embassy. >> these very same pictures were brought to bin laden in sudan and bin laden looked through the pictures and decided where he was going to put a truck bomb. >> reporter: but the plan was put on a shelf for five years. all officials seem to know now is that al liby was simply a scout for the operation. by the time of the bombing, he had joined another military tant