One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen incarcerated in a US federal prison
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith سليمان بوغيث
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith sitting with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, from an al Qaeda propaganda tape
Born
(1965-12-14) 14 December 1965 (age 58)[1] Kuwait City, Kuwait[1]
Arrested
28 February 2013[2] Amman, Jordan
Citizenship
Kuwait (pre-2001) Stateless
Detained at
ADX Florence
Charge(s)
Conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists
Penalty
Life imprisonment
Sulaiman Jassem Sulaiman Ali Abu Ghaith (Arabic: سليمان جاسم سليمان علي أبو غيث; born 14 December 1965) is a Kuwaiti regarded as one of al-Qaeda's spokesmen.[3] He is married to one of Osama bin Laden's daughters.[4] In 2013, Gaith was arrested in Jordan and extradited to the United States.[5][4] In 2014, he was convicted in a U.S. federal court in New York for "conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists" and sentenced to life imprisonment[6][7] He is serving his sentence at the federal ADX Florence prison in Colorado.[8]
^ abFBI 2013, p. 1.
^"Osama bin Laden's son-in-law pleads not guilty in New York court". The Guardian. 8 March 2013.
^
Thomas Joscelyn (28 September 2010). "Osama bin Laden's spokesman freed by Iran". Long War Journal. Archived from the original on 13 November 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011. Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the September 11 attacks, had lived in Iran since early 2002, and was reportedly held under a loose form of house arrest beginning in 2003.
^ abCite error: The named reference NYT20130308 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Who is Sulaiman Abu Ghaith? all you need to know". firstpost.com. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
^Weiser, Benjamin (26 March 2014). "Abu Ghaith, Bin Laden's Son-in-Law, Is Convicted in Terror Trial". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
^Hays, Tom (23 September 2014). "Ex-al-Qaida spokesman gets life prison term in NY". Seattle PI. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
^Stempel, Jonathan (28 September 2017). "Bin Laden son-in-law's conviction upheld; U.S. says 'justice done'". Reuters. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
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