Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison

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Source: Reuters

A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges.

A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support, after a trial that offered a rare glimpse of bin Laden in the hours following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan imposed the sentence minutes after Abu Ghaith made a statement in Arabic, quoting the Koran and declaring he would not ask for mercy from anyone but God.

"Today, and at the same moment where you are shackling my hands and intend to bury me alive, you are at the same time unleashing the hands of hundreds of Muslim youths," the former imam said through an interpreter. "And you are removing the dust of their minds, and they will join the rally of the free men."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/23/us-usa-binladen-soninlaw-idUSKCN0HI1LJ20140923?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Aren't the bushes going to bail him out?

[seveneyes]

2. quoting the Koran and declaring he would not ask for mercy from anyone but God

I wonder how this idiot feels being dumber than a bird than has enough sense to fly South for the Winter?

If there is a god, it doesn't do "mercy", it does genetics.

[Octafish]

3. What about the bin Ladens Bush flew out after 9-11?

Bin Laden Family Evacuated

CBSNEWS.COM STAFF
September 30, 2001, 4:57 PM

Two dozen members of Osama bin Laden's family were urgently evacuated from the United States in the first days following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, according to the Saudi ambassador to Washington.

One of bin Laden's brothers frantically called the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington looking for protection, Prince Bandar bin Sultan told The New York Times. The brother was sent to a room in the Watergate Hotel and was told not to open the door.

Most of bin Laden's relatives were attending high school and college. The young members of the bin Laden family were driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret place in Texas and then to Washington, The Times reported Sunday.

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King Fahd, the ailing Saudi ruler, sent an urgent message to his embassy in Washington pointing out that there were "bin Laden children all over America" and ordered, "Take measures to protect the innocents," the ambassador said.

It's a tragedy," Prince Bandar told the Times. "The elders" of the students "came to see me, and one of them was a bright boy from Harvard who like the others had absolutely nothing to do with this and yet we had to tell him to go home and wait until the emotions calmed down. And he told me that he never really appreciated why the Japanese wanted a memorial or an apology for their treatment in World War II.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bin-laden-family-evacuated/

[EX500rider]

5. What about them? Are they guilty for just having the same last name?

[Octafish]

6. No. I'd like to know why they were allowed to fly out without the FBI talking to them.

Seems if the guy in the OP did something wrong, the others would have been worth talking to before letting them fly out of the country. George W Bush White House ordered their evacuation without FBI interview. Perhaps it's understandable when considering Poppy Bush, James Baker and another bin Laden family member were meeting with the Carlyle Group on September 11, 2001.

[EX500rider]

7. With all the scrutiny bin Laden was under I am sure they (CIA) knew if any of his..

....very extended family was involved in terrorism. Especially if they were allowed into the US.

[Octafish]

9. Sure, like the hijackers CIA forgot to tell the FBI about.

CIA Didn't Share Info About 9/11 Hijackers

By Brian Ross
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent, July 24 YNP

If San Diego FBI agent Steven Butler had known what the CIA knew about possible terror attacks, he may have had the best chance to stop the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, investigators told ABCNEWS.

Butler had two of the hijackers, Nawaf Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar, under his nose for some 18 months, but neither he, nor anyone in the FBI, was warned by the CIA.

The CIA had tracked Alhamzi and Al-Midhar to California after the men were photographed at an al Qaeda planning meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 where, it was later determined, terrorists were plotting the attack on the USS Cole.

Alhamzi and Al-Midhar then moved to San Diego, where the FBI could have monitored them. The two future hijackers actually rented rooms in the house of one of Butler's informants, Abdussattar Shaikh, a leader at the local mosque, who also helped get them a computer and a car.

"We know for a fact that that car was used to travel from San Diego to Phoenix, to meet up with Hani Hanjour …, who [was] another pilot who [was] taking flight training," said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant. "This is a window of opportunity you are seldom presented with."

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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129563

[KansDem]

8. I agree...

I'd like to know why they were allowed to fly out without the FBI talking to them.

Maybe if the family members were questioned by the FBI, they might have compiled information that would have led to OBL's arrest and trial.

It was never explained why the bin Laden family received such preferential treatment from Bush.

[Octafish]

10. ''It was never explained.''

Absolutely agree. Getting the criminals who killed thousands of innocent people on September 11 behind bars required questioning the chief suspect's family and friends.

Then this fits a pattern of the secret government that runs the US government: "Never Explain. Move On. Back to Business."

It's become historical. What once was government of, by, and for the People, whether it's 9/11, illegal NSA spying, killing US citizens without trial, Wall Street Bailout, offshored trillions, ENRON energy policy, wars without end, Iran-Contra, Watergate, Vietnam and a hell of a lot more going all the way back to Nov. 22, 1963 -- is now S.O.P.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I don't mind him going to prison.

In my opinion, those are the people who should go to prison, as opposed to drug offenders, thieves, etc.