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A man described as a spokesman for Osama Bin1 Laden2 has been arrested and will be tried in New York City, the US has confirmed.
美国证实,一位被说成是奥萨马·本·拉登发言人的男子被逮捕并将在纽约受审。
![]() A man identified as Suleiman Abu Ghaith is seen in this still from a video address Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was captured within the last week in Jordan, Congressman3 Peter King said on Thursday.
Mr Abu Ghaith is Bin Laden's son-in-law and played a role in plotting the attacks of 9/11, US officials said.
Bin Laden was killed in a May 2011 raid on his hideout in Pakistan by a team of US commandos.
Mr Abu Ghaith is scheduled to appear in a federal court on Friday on charges of conspiracy4 to kill United States nationals.
"Sulaiman Abu Ghaith held a key position in al-Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere(参谋,顾问) in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime," said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos in a statement.
'One by one'
A teacher and mosque6 preacher in Kuwait, Mr Abu Ghaith was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship7 after 9/11.
Justice department officials say Mr Abu Ghaith served alongside Bin Laden from May 2001 to 2002, speaking on behalf of al-Qaeda and warning that attacks similar to 9/11 would continue.
Specifically, on 12 September 2001, he appeared with Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to warn the US that a "great army is gathering8 against you" and called upon "the nation of Islam" to do battle against "the Jews, the Christians9 and the Americans," according to court records.
A Jordanian security official told the Associated Press that Mr Abu Ghaith was handed over last week to US officials under both countries' extradition11 treaties.
Mr King called the arrest a "very significant victory" in the fight against al-Qaeda.
"One by one, we are getting the top echelons12 of al-Qaeda," the Republican congressman said. "I give the administration credit for this. It's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."
Mr Abu Ghaith's trial will mark one of the first prosecutions14 of senior al-Qaeda leaders on US soil.
Since 9/11, 67 foreign terror suspects have been convicted in US federal courts, according to data obtained by the group Human Rights First.
Some US lawmakers disagreed with the decision to try Mr Abu Ghaith in New York.
"When we find somebody like this, this close to Bin Laden and the senior al-Qaeda leadership, the last thing in the world we want to do, in my opinion, is put them in a civilian15 court," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday.
"This man should be in Guantanamo Bay," he said.
A senior administration official told the BBC that Mr Obama's national security team "unanimously agreed" that prosecution13 of Mr Abu Ghaith in federal court was in the US' national security interests.
"The administration is seeking to close Guantanamo, not add to its population," the official said.
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