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From CNN Producer Phil Hirschkorn

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jurors rendered guilty verdicts for all of the charges against the four defendants in the embassy bombings trial. Most of the 302-counts in the revised, 61-page indictment applied to more than one defendant.

Conspiracy

There were four terrorist conspiracy counts, the main one being the first: conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals. This count encompassed the history of Osama bin Laden's Islamic militant group, al Qaeda, and outlined a decade's worth of overt actions in pursuit of its goals.

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All four defendants -- Wadih el Hage, Mohamed Odeh, Mohamed al-'Owhali, and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed -- were found guilty of this charge.

The jury also found all four defendants guilty of the related conspiracies to destroy U.S. buildings and property and to murder U.S. government officers and employees.

The three defendants charged in the bombings -- Odeh, al-'Owhali, and Mohamed -- were found guilty of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S. nationals. El Hage did not face this count.

Bombings

The jury found both al-'Owhali and Odeh guilty of carrying out the Nairobi, Kenya, embassy bombing.

It found Mohamed guilty of carrying out the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, embassy bombing. El Hage was not charged in either attack.

Al-'Owhali, Odeh, and Mohamed were also found guilty of using weapons of mass destruction against U.S. nationals.

Murder

The jury found the three convicted bombers guilty of murdering the 224 people who died in the twin attacks.

Al-'Owhali and Odeh were found guilty of murdering 213 Kenya bomb fatalities, one count for each victim.

Mohamed was found guilty of murdering 11 people who died in the Tanzania explosion, one count for each victim.

There were 49 additional counts related to the bombing deaths and injuries. For example, al-'Owhali and Odeh were found guilty of murdering the 41 Kenya bomb victims who worked at the embassy, 12 Americans and 29 Kenyans. Mohamed was found guilty of murdering the two embassy employees who died in Tanzania.

The prosecution is seeking the death penalty only for Al-'Owhali and Mohamed.

Perjury

Only el Hage was charged with perjury, specifically 18 counts of lying during a pair of grand jury appearances in 1997 and 1998 about his relationships with bin Laden, his military commanders, and associates of al Qaeda.

The jury found him guilty on all 18 of the counts.

Some key statements the jury did not believe were el Hage's claims that he hadn't seen bin Laden since 1994, that he did not work for him in Kenya 1994-97, and that he did not know any of his U.S. contacts.

The jury also decided that el Hage's claim, in sworn testimony a month after the bombings, that he did not know or recognize a photograph of Odeh was untrue.