SECURITY STRICT FOR BOMBERS' SENTENCINGS.(MAIN)

Byline: LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The first men convicted of carrying out Osama bin Laden's 1998 edict to kill Americans will be sentenced under tight security Thursday in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

The four men were found guilty last May in a trial that laid out in detail what the government knew about bin Laden and his network of terror. Their sentencing will take place at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, just blocks from the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center.

U.S. marshals with shotguns guard the courthouse. Barricades block the adjacent street, and steel posts protect the …