Sulaiman Abu Ghaith
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (born December 14, 1965 in Kuwait ) is an expatriate Kuwaiti Islamist and al-Qaida spokesman who was arrested in Jordan in 2013 , brought to the United States and charged there. He is one of Osama bin Laden's sons-in-law .
Life
Ghaith first caught on in the 1990s with inflammatory speeches against the Kuwaiti regime. He traveled to Afghanistan in 2000 or 2001 to join Osama bin Laden, quickly made a career in al-Qaida's propaganda department and married bin Laden's daughter Fatima. He has several other wives and at least 23 children.
With his compatriot Adel al Zamel , he co-founded the front organization Al Wafa al Igatha al Islamia , with which al-Qaeda collected donations. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , he defended the attacks on Al Jazeera and threatened further attacks (among other things, al-Qaeda has “the right to kill four million Americans, including one million children, and to displace twice as many and hundreds of thousands to cripple ”), whereupon he was expatriated in Kuwait. He later appeared in video messages alongside bin Laden and Aiman az-Zawahiri and called for attacks on the United States.
After the invasion of the US armed forces in Afghanistan , he probably stayed in Iran from 2002 to 2010, but maybe also until 2013, with the high-ranking Egyptian Saif al-Adel under unexplained circumstances, presumably as a guest or prisoner .
Arrest and prosecution
In February 2013 he was sent to an illegal entry into Turkey in a hotel in Ankara arrested, Turkey but did not provide him out, but pointed him out to his home country. On a stopover in Jordan, he was arrested again on February 28, 2013 and immediately taken to New York State , where he was tried. He is one of the first al-Qaida members to be tried in a civil court in New York . Prominent Republicans like Mike Rogers from the Intelligence Committee of Parliament and Senator Lindsey Graham expressed opposition to the proceedings before the Civil Court and for the detention in Guantanamo Bay from. In April 2013, his lawyers filed a motion to move the court. In March 2014, he was convicted on the three counts of (1.) conspiracy to kill Americans and (2.) conspiracy and (3.) providing material support to terrorists in a US federal district court in Manhattan . The sentence announced in September 2014 was life imprisonment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Washington Post March 7, 2013
- ↑ Criminaljustice USA
- ↑ BBC 2001
- ↑ Longwar Journal 2010
- ↑ Ntv
- ↑ Reuters, April 2013
- ↑ Benjamin Weiser: Abu Ghaith, Bin Laden's Son-in-Law, Is Convicted in Terror Trial. New York Times, March 26, 2014, accessed March 26, 2014 .
- ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/bin-laden-schwiegersohn- Judgment- 100.html ( Memento from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu Ghaith, Sulaiman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kuwaiti terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuwait |