Bin Laden Son-In-Law Arrested, Brought To New York For Torture and "Trial"
A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who served as al Qaeda's spokesman was arrested in Jordan and then brought to New York in an operation led by Jordanian authorities and the FBI, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. - The sources said Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who appeared in videos representing al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, had initially been picked up in Turkey. The Turkish government deported him to Jordan, said the sources, where local authorities and the FBI took custody of him. He had been brought to the United States in the last few days, a law enforcement source said. Abu Ghaith is now being held in a detention facility in the New York City area and is expected to be charged and eventually brought to trial in federal court. The trial would most likely be in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan, only blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, a law enforcement source said. The Justice Department declined to comment and the FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The Guardian: Osama bin Laden's son-in-law detained in US operation in Jordan - Peter King, a senior Republican member of the House intelligence committee and former chairman of the House committee on homeland security he commended our CIA and FBI, our allies in Jordan, and President Obama for their capture of al-Qaida spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith and [ominously] [added that] he trusted Abu Ghaith would receive a "vigorous interrogation" [torture], and [that he] would face "swift and certain justice" [death].