{"id":2080,"date":"2014-09-24T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2014-09-24T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T08:49:12","slug":"bin-laden-son-in-law-sentenced-to-life-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2081\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Suleiman-360x202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2081\" alt=\"This screengrab shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden\u2019s son-in-law.\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Suleiman-360x202-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Suleiman-360x202-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Suleiman-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This screengrab shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden\u2019s son-in-law.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, addressing Abu Ghaith, said it was his \u201cassessment that you are committed to doing everything you can to carry out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\">al Qaeda<\/a>\u2019s agenda to kill Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abu Ghaith, who was arrested in Turkey, is one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda figures to be brought to the United States to face a civilian trial. Evidence against him included videos and audio recordings, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Ghaith appeared in videos representing al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. US District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Suleiman-360x202.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-xy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}