Bin Laden son-in-law convicted at NYC terror trial
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
Mar 26, 2014 9:57 AM CDT
FILE - In this undated image made from video and provided by by Al-Jazeera, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, is shown. Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman still maintains that there was justification for the September 11, 2001 attacks orchestrated by al-Qaida upon the United States. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith,...   (Associated Press)

NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden's son-in-law has been convicted in New York of conspiring to kill Americans by serving as al-Qaida's spokesman after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The verdict was returned Wednesday for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO'-lay-mahn AH'-boo gayth) in federal court in Manhattan. The Kuwaiti clergyman could face life in prison when he is sentenced on charges of conspiracy and aiding al-Qaida.

He was captured in Jordan last year and brought to New York for trial. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial on U.S. soil since the attacks.

Videos showing Abu Ghaith threatening America with no end to the "storm of airplanes" were shown to jurors. Defense lawyers say he knew nothing about conspiracies. He testified bin Laden asked him the night of the attacks to be al-Qaida's spokesman.

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