"We're talking about microscopic particles that are easily transferred, " said Odeh attorney Edward Wilford.
Al-'Owhali and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, 36, a Jordanian accused in the bombing in Kenya, were the first trial defendants arrested.
When a Pakistani immigration official noticed that Odeh did not look like the photograph in his Yemen-issued passport, Odeh was arrested.
Several Pakistani and Kenyan police officers who handled Odeh's travel bag before it went into U.S. custody did not wear protective gloves, he said.
Al-'Owhali is a 24-year-old Saudi and Odeh is a 36-year-old Jordanian.
Their post-arrest statements are among the strongest evidence prosecutors presented against al-'Owhali, who could face the death penalty, and Odeh, who could face life in prison.
Along with el Hage, Mohamed al'Owhali, a 24-year-old Saudi, and Mohamed Odeh, a 35-year-old Jordanian, also are being tried on charges that they took part in the Kenya bombing.
Odeh's FBI interview and hotel records indicate that he stayed at Nairobi's Hilltop Hotel, the same hotel prosecutors say the other alleged conspirators used, in the days before the attack.
On cross-examination, Mount said it was possible but not probable that investigators who were at the Kenya bomb scene, and who also handled Odeh's clothing, could have transferred bomb residue.
Three items inside Odeh's bag -- a pair of jeans, a T-shirt, and a cloth described as a bed sheet -- tested positive for either TNT or PETN, Mount said.
Before Tuesday, the prosecutors' best piece of evidence against Odeh may have been a handwritten sketch found in his Kenyan home that bore a striking resemblance to the targeted embassy compound.
Odeh left Kenya the day before the attack, according to travel records introduced into evidence, taking a Pakistani International Airways flight that landed in Karachi just a few hours before the bombing occurred.
In testimony Tuesday, FBI forensic chemist Kelly Mount told the jury that clothing found in the travel bag of defendant Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, accused in the bombing in Kenya, contained traces of explosive material.
Although he maintains his innocence, Odeh has admitted to the FBI that he felt a moral sense of responsibility for the Kenya bombing because he belonged to al Qaeda, the Islamic militant organization run by bin Laden.
Odeh later admitted to an FBI agent who interrogated him that he was in the company of the men who allegedly carried out the bombing of the embassy in Kenya, but he denied having a role in the plot.
Kherchtou, 36, a Moroccan who testified he broke with bin Laden in 1996, has linked el Hage and trial co-defendant Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, saying the alleged conspirators knew each other when they both lived in Kenya in the mid-1990s.
Three of the four defendants -- Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed -- are accused of killing 213 people in Nariobi, Kenya, and 11 victims in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in twin bombings of the U.S. embassies there on August 7, 1998.
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