Osama bin Laden's son in law, Abu Ghaith, has been sentenced to life in prison. He will be behind bars for the rest of his life for acting as spokesman of the terror group Al Qaeda. The terror group gained global notoriety after the terror attack that happened on 11TH September, 2001 on American soil.
The Kuwait-born son-in-law of Bin Laden was arrested in Jordan while heading to Kuwait. Jordan had revoked his citizenship after the 9/11 U.S terror attack. The CIA tracked Ghaith's movements to a hotel in Ankara. He had hoped that Al Qaeda operatives would have assisted him in fleeing Jordan but the CIA in conjunction with Turkey's national intelligence service arrested him before he could escape.
The Kuwait Imam arrived in Afghanistan in 2001. He was allegedly radicalized by recruits in Al Qaeda camps. He moved to Iran in 2002. Abu Gaith was arrested the following year. While in prison, he married Bin Laden's daughter in the year 2008. After his release, he went to Turkey where he was again arrested and deported to Jordan before being extradited to America.
Abu Ghaith was the most senior Al Qaeda figure to be charged and tried in the U.S since the 2001 terror attack. The Kuwait cleric was the voice of Al Qaeda in 2001. During trial, he testified that his work was purely religious.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sentenced Abu Ghaith to life imprisonment. He stated that he was not remorseful for the 48-year old imam. Stanly Cohen, the defense attorney, had asked the court to impose a 15-year sentence. On the other side, the prosecutor called for life imprisonment.
Abu Ghaith's conviction was dated March this year. He was charged with conspiring with Osama bin Laden to recruit followers to carry out suicide missions. In October 2001 video, the son-in-law of the one-time world's most wanted man, is reported to have said that the storm of airplanes would not end.
Part of the evidence that justified Abu Gaith's conviction is a video in which he was seated with Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al Qaeda leaders who were trying to justify the attacks on U.S.