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| Bin Laden son-in-law facing terror |
| Bin Laden son-in-law facing terror charges in New York
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-March-2013
6:17:58 AM |
| Weeks after he was first arrested in Turkey, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who once served as a spokesman for al-Qaeda will appear in a New York courtroom on Friday to face terrorism charges that could result in life imprisonment.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is married to one of bin Laden's daughters, Fatima, is to be charged with conspiracy to kill Americans, according to an indictment released Thursday.
Justice Department officials described him as a propagandist who they believe has not had an operational role in al-Qaeda for years and did not participate in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, or any plots against the U.S. But one law enforcement official said that Abu Ghaith, 47, was the most senior al-Qaeda figure to face criminal trial in New York since America's war against the terrorist network began.
Details about Abu Ghaith's arrest were sketchy Thursday, but officials said he was originally detained last month while staying in a hotel in Ankara, Turkey, after crossing the border from Iran, where he had been living for about a decade.
According to one person in Washington briefed on the matter, Turkish officials rebuffed demands by the Obama administration to directly hand him over to the United States, choosing instead to deport him to Kuwait. On a stopover in Amman, Jordan, U.S. officials took him into custody and flew him to New York.
Jordan's spy service, the General Intelligence Directorate, is one of the Central Intelligence Agency's closest partners in the Middle East.
Abu Ghaith was a Muslim preacher and teacher in Kuwait who spoke out against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in the early 1990s. In 2000, he travelled to Afghanistan, where he met bin Laden and eventually married one of his daughters.
He attracted wide attention in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks by making statements defending the terrorist attacks, some of them carried on Al-Jazeera.
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