Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is the Kuwaiti al-Qaeda spokesman and Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, convicted in 2014 of conspiring to kill Americans. In 2005 the opening called him a Kuwaiti Islamist militant regarded as Al-Qaida's official spokesman. Today the opening calls him only a Kuwaiti regarded as one of al-Qaeda's spokesmen, though militant survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns his role as spokesman and not that Wikipedia's own opening once called him a militant.
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Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (born 1965 or 1966?) is an Kuwaiti Islamist militant regarded as Al-Qaida 's official spokesman. Abu Ghaith first gained attention during the 1990 - 1991 Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait . His sermons denouncing the occupation and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gained him some degree of popularity amongst the Kuwaiti people. Following the defeat of Iraq, he turned his attention towards the Kuwaiti government and royal family , denouncing the 1962 constitution and demanding the institution of Sharia law. The Kuwaiti government subsequently removed him from the mosque and banned him from giving sermons, and he became a high school teacher of religion. In June 2000 he left Kuwait for Afghanistan , where he met Osama bin Laden and joined his Al-Qaeda organization. His affinity for public speaking and comparative youth put him at the head of Al-Qaeda's attempt to widen its appeal from ultra-conservative and mostly elderly clerics to the general population and especially the youth of majority-Muslim countries; in this capacity, he quickly became the organization's spokesman. He rose to worldwide attention following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . In October 2001 he appeared on two widely-circulated videos (first broadcast on al-Jazeera television) to defend the attacks and threaten reprisals for the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan , saying "Americans should know, the storm of the planes will not stop... There are thousands of the Islamic nation's youths who are eager to die just as the Americans are eager to live." These statements caused the Kuwaiti government to strip him of his citizenship. His whereabouts, as he moved around to escape capture by the United States in the following months, are unclear. In July 2003 , a Kuwaiti minister announced that the Iranian government had offered to extradite Abu Ghaith to Kuwait, but that Kuwait had refused the offer. It is unclear (as of July 2003) whether he is currently in Iranian custody, or indeed in Iran at all.1
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Sulaiman Abu Ghaith ( ) (born ca. 1965 or 1966) is a Kuwaiti Islamist regarded as one of Al-Qaida 's official spokesmen.
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Sulaiman Abu Ghaith ( ) (born 14 December 1965) is a Kuwaiti regarded as one of Al-Qaeda 's spokesmen.He is married to one of Osama bin Laden 's daughters.Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan.
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One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen incarcerated in a US federal prison Sulaiman Abu Ghaith ( ) (born 14 December 1965) is a stateless Arab regarded as one of al-Qaeda 's spokesmen. Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan.
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One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen incarcerated in a US federal prison Sulaiman Abu Ghaith ( ; born 14 December 1965) is a Kuwaiti regarded as one of al-Qaeda 's spokesmen. He is married to one of Osama bin Laden 's daughters.In 2013, Gaith was arrested in Jordan and extradited to the United States.In 2014, he was convicted in a U.S. federal court in New York for "conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists" and sentenced to life imprisonment He is serving his sentence at the federal ADX Florence prison in Colorado. Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the September 11 attacks, had lived in Iran since early 2002, and was reportedly held under a loose form of house arrest beginning in 2003.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen incarcerated in a US federal prison Sulaiman Jassem Sulaiman Ali Abu Ghaith ( Arabic : سليمان جاسم سليمان علي أبو غيث ; born 14 December 1965) is a Kuwaiti regarded as one of al-Qaeda 's spokesmen. He is married to one of Osama bin Laden 's daughters. In 2013, Gaith was arrested in Jordan and extradited to the United States. In 2014, he was convicted in a U.S. federal court in New York for "conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists" and sentenced to life imprisonment He is serving his sentence at the federal ADX Florence prison in Colorado. Iran has allowed an al Qaeda terrorist who served as Osama bin Laden's spokesman to return to Afghanistan. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti preacher who gained worldwide infamy after the September 11 attacks, had lived in Iran since early 2002, and was reportedly held under a loose form of house arrest beginning in 2003.
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