Bin Laden’s Son-in-law Jailed For Life

Nov 17, 2014 Samuel Foreign News 0

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OSAMA Bin Laden’s son-in-law, who was an al-Qaeda spokesman after 9/11, has been sentenced to life in prison for terrorism-related charges at a trial in New York.

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, 48, is the highest-ranking al-Qaeda figure to face trial on United States soil since the attacks. The Kuwaiti clergyman was captured in Jordan last year and brought to the US.

In March, a jury found Abu Ghaith guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans and aiding al-Qaeda.

Addressing him directly, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in his assessment that “Ghaith is committed to doing everything he can to carry out al-Qaeda’s agenda to kill Americans”.

Videos showing Abu Ghaith threatening America with no end to the “storm of airplanes” were shown to jurors.

Abu Ghaith argued his role was a purely religious one and aimed at encouraging all Muslims to rise up against their oppressors.

He testified that Bin Laden had asked him to be al-Qaeda’s spokesman on the night of the 9/11 attacks.

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