{"id":13524,"date":"2014-03-30T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bin-laden-s-son-in-law-convicted\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T07:44:04","slug":"bin-laden-s-son-in-law-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bin-laden-s-son-in-law-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden’s Son-in-law Convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was an al-Qaeda spokesman after 9\/11, has been convicted of terrorism-related charges at a trial in New York.}}<\/p>\n

He could face life in prison when he is sentenced in September for conspiracy to kill Americans and aiding al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

The Kuwaiti clergyman was captured in Jordan last year and brought to the US.<\/p>\n

He is the highest-ranking al-Qaeda figure to face trial on US soil since the attacks.<\/p>\n

The jury returned a guilty verdict on three charges: conspiracy to kill Americans, conspiring to provide support to al-Qaeda, and providing support to al-Qaeda. The verdict came after about five hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n

Videos showing Abu Ghaith threatening America with no end to the “storm of airplanes” were shown to jurors, but he argued his role was a purely religious one, aimed at encouraging all Muslims to rise up against their oppressors.<\/p>\n

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

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Stanley Cohen, Abu Ghaith’s defence lawyer, outside the federal court building
\nAbu Ghaith’s defence lawyer argued there was “zero evidence” his client was involved in conspiracies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was an al-Qaeda spokesman after 9\/11, has been convicted of terrorism-related charges at a trial in New York.}} He could face life in prison when he is sentenced in September for conspiracy to kill Americans and aiding al-Qaeda. The Kuwaiti clergyman was captured in Jordan last year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051310,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13524.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}