Assistant US Attorney John Cronan passionately urged the court that Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, to put him in bars for the remainder of his life as he was no accidental terrorist. The prosecutor made his closing statement in a Manhattan Federal Court, which was just blocks way from Ground Zero, where bin Laden's terrorist plans caused planes to struck down the Twin Towers formerly standing in the area, and killing people on board the plane and the people in the building. The landmark terrorist attack, along with Abu Ghaith's passionate video message in behalf of the Al Qaeda has struck fear not only the US but to the world.
Cronan said that bin Laden turn to his daughter's husband, a Kuwaiti cleric, on the eve of Sept. 11, 2001. Abu Ghaith was found to be the person speaking in a videotaped propaganda speech about the attacks that killed about 3,000. Captured last year, New York Daily News said Abu Ghaith is being tried for providing support to terrorist and for aiding them to kill Americans by fulfilling his role as a spokesman and recruiter for the terrorist organization.
The trial, which ran for three weeks, also saw two convicted terrorists providing their testimonies. The jury had also seen video footages of Abu Ghaith preaching violent jihad, or holy war, New York Daily News said.
Last week, Abu Ghaith took the witness stand and claimed he was the wrong man to be tried as his name was allegedly mixed up when he traveled on a humanitarian mission to Afghanistan. Cronan dismissed Abu Ghaith's claims, and told the court that the Kuwaiti national is no victim nor ignorant of his crimes against the US.
"Just four hours after four planes came crashing into our country, amid Al Qaeda's savage success and all the other chaos of that terrible day, Osama Bin Laden turned to this man," Cronan said.
