First Osama bin Laden, and then his spokesman.
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Associated Press is reporting that U.S. intelligence officials have caught Bin Laden’s spokesman and son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith.
Rep. Peter King, the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, credited the CIA and FBI with catching Ghaith in Jordan within the last week. He said the capture was confirmed to him by U.S. law enforcement officials.
Ghaith allegedly took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
“Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al-Qaida,” King said Thursday. “I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it’s steady and it’s unrelenting and it’s very successful.”
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reported that Ghaith was passing through Jordan, on his way to Kuwait, shortly after leaving Turkey. Ghaith was taken into custody more than a month ago at a luxury hotel in Ankara, the Turkish capital. But Turkish officials decided he had not committed any crime in Turkey, and released him, the newspaper reported.
This story is developing.
SOURCE: AP
