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In all, 224 persons - 213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania - were killed in the two incidents.
Earlier, the jury had rejected the prosecution's plea for the death penalty.
The attacks are believed to have been carried out by Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group.
The prosecution said that Tanzanian Khalfan Kamis Mohammed (28) had provided sanctuary to the men who carried out the attack on the US embassy in Dar-es-Salaam in September 1998.
It was in his rented house in Dar-es-Salaam that the bomb meant for the US embassy in the Tanzanian capital was assembled.
Mohammed was held guilty of terrorist conspiracy, bombing the US embassy in Tanzania and the murder of 11 persons.
In the Nairobi case, the prosecution said Mohammed Rashid al-'Owhali (24), a Saudi national, rode in the truck that carried the bomb and fired stun grenades at the US embassy guards.
Co-conspirator Mohammed Sadiq Odeh (36) was not convicted of actual involvement in the bombing of the embassy, but of being the technical consultant for the mission.
Odeh is a Jordanian and member of the Al Qaeda since 1992.
Owhali and Odeh were convicted of murdering 213 people in Nairobi.
The fourth person Wadih el-Hage (41) is a naturalised American citizen of Lebanese origin. He was a personal secretary to Osama bin Laden when the latter was based in Sudan in the early 1990s.
Wadih el-Hage later became a key facilitator of Laden's East Africa cell, sending and receiving messages from Afghanistan.
The prosecution showed that Hage used a charity to receive money from Laden and used to manufacture fake identification papers for Al Qaeda members.
He, however, had left Kenya a year before the attacks and was not accused of a direct role in the bombings.
He was convicted of criminal conspiracy to kill Americans and on several counts of perjury for trying to cover up his role.
Al-'Owhali refused to comment on the sentencing but Mohammed thanked the jury for having spared his life, CNN reported.
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