Bin Laden's son-in-law faces charges in US
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, accused of conspiring to kill US nationals, brought to New
York City after his "arrest in Turkey".
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2013 23:04
Image from video obtained by Reuters news agency in 2002 shows the man believed
to be Sulaiman Abu Ghaith
The US government has accused Osama bin Laden's son-in-law with a conspiracy to
kill US nationals, after he was arrested in Turkey and brought to New York City
to stand trial.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, reportedly a 47-year-old Kuwaiti and allegedly one of the
chief propagandists of the al-Qaeda network, is expected to be arraigned before
a US district judge on Friday morning.
Abu Ghaith stands accused of conspiring "to kill nationals of the United
States", the US Justice Department said earlier on Thursday.
Eric Holder, US attorney general, said the arrest showed that the US would
never relent in its pursuit of the fighters who launched the attacks of
September 11, 2001, on New York and Washington.
"No amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring America's
enemies to justice," he said.
"To violent extremists who threaten the American people and seek to undermine
our way of life, this arrest sends an unmistakable message.
"There is no corner of the world where you can escape from justice because we
will do everything in our power to hold you accountable to the fullest extent
of the law."
US authorities accuse Ghaith of assisting bin Laden, who was killed in a 2011
raid by American commandos, and of taking to the airwaves to promote al-Qaeda's
war against America after the 9/11 attacks.
Turkish reports
According to the indictment he allegedly threatened Americans, warning them
that a "great army is gathering" and "the storms shall not stop, especially the
airplanes storm".
A Turkish newspaper had reported earlier that Ghaith was seized by US
authorities at a hotel in Ankara, the Turkish capital, last month and was
deported to Jordan, before being taken to the US.
The Hürriyet reported that Abu Ghaith was passing through Jordan, on his way to
Kuwait, shortly after leaving Turkey.
The US accused Osama bin Laden of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks
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The newspaper said that Abu Ghaith was taken into custody more than a month ago
at a luxury hotel in Ankara.
But Turkish officials decided he had not committed any crime in Turkey, and
released him, the newspaper reported.
In Ankara, Turkish officials refused to confirm Abu Ghaith's deportation or his
capture in Jordan to the Associated Press.
In Amman, the Jordanian capital, a security official said he had no information
on the CIA arrest in Jordan.
Initial public confirmation of Abu Ghaith's capture came from Peter King, a
senior Republican member of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee
and former chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
On Thursday, King called the arrest a "very significant victory" in the ongoing
fight against al-Qaeda.
He said the capture was confirmed to him by US law enforcement officials.
US sources indicated that, while a CIA role in the capture of Abu Ghaith could
not be ruled out, the FBI took the lead role in the operation under the
auspices of an interagency body known as the High-value Detainee Interrogation
Group.
The group was created by Obama's administration after the president ordered the
permanent shutdown of a CIA programme in which rebel suspects were detained and
held in a network of secret prisons, during the administration of former
President George Bush.
The suspects were sometimes subjected to controversial and physically coercive
"enhanced interrogation techniques," and also sometimes transferred without
trial to third countries under a procedure known as "extraordinary rendition".
US intelligence officials in Washington did not immediately respond to request
for information about Abu Ghaith.
Source:
Agencies
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