US prosecutors on Monday linked Osama bin Laden's son-in-law to the 2001 Al-Qaeda shoe bomber plot after adding two extra charges against the Kuwaiti, who faces life behind bars if convicted.
A New York federal judge has set the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law for January after defense lawyers said US budget cuts would make it hard to prepare by an earlier date.
NEW YORK — With the surprise appearance in a New York courtroom of Osama bin Laden's son in law on Friday, the US justice system's handling of terrorism cases itself went back on trial.
Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by CIA agents and taken to the United States after Turkey deported him to Jordan this month, a Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday.
