No outcry over NY trial for bin Laden aide
At right, this video grab June 23, 2002, from the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television channel shows a photo of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a spokesman for the al-Qaida network and Osama bin Laden's son-in-law. Abu Ghaith pleaded not guilty on March 8, 2013, to terrorism charges. At left, members of the media stand across the street from the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, where Abu Ghaith was arraigned on March 8, 2012.
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WASHINGTON -- Some key New York politicians say they aren't objecting to the Manhattan federal trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith because it doesn't pose the same security issues as the proposed trial of 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which they blocked in 2010.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) also said New York officials weren't caught by surprise this time as they...
