Louis Pepe was a federal prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
The savage attack on him by two of the African embassy bombers left him without his left eye and some brain damage.
“I was a federal prison guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. In 2000, I was with a prisoner, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, taking him back to his cell. His cellmate was Khalfan Khamis Mohamed. They were accused of bombing two embassies in Africa in 1998. Later they said that they worked with Osama bin Laden and that they helped set up al Qaeda.