Bin Laden son-in-law due in New York court
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 8, 2013 23:52
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman was due back in a US federal court in New York Monday, a month after he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, reportedly a 47-year-old Kuwaiti and allegedly a senior propagandist in the Al-Qaeda network, is accused of conspiring “to kill nationals of the United States.”
At the March 8 arraignment, which followed a secret operation to bring Abu Ghaith to US custody, Judge Lewis Kaplan said he expected he would set a trial date at Monday’s hearing.
Amid mystery about the circumstances of his arrest, one of Abu Ghaith’s court-appointed defense lawyers said he was detained “by United States law enforcement” overseas on February 28, and was brought to New York on March 1.
The courthouse is just a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, where the Twin Towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001 by airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda militants.
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