His name is Sulaiman Abu Ghaith and he is charged with conspiring to kill US nationals. He was taken into US custody by the FBI in Jordan.
There are differing accounts of exactly how he got there and how much of a player he was in al-Qaeda, as well as differing opinions about which venue better serves American security interests.
"Sulaiman Abu Ghaith held a key position in al-Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos said in the written statement released by the Justice Department.
"He used his position to persuade others to swear loyalty to al-Qaeda’s murderous cause."
US Attorney General Eric Holder said the arrest demonstrated the US resolve to bring its enemies to justice.
But it is not the kind of justice preferred by Republicans who blocked President Barack Obama from closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by denying him the necessary funding.
"We believe firmly that Gitmo, there is no substitute for it that Congress will agree upon," said Republican Senator Lindsay Graham from South Carolina.
"It is the right place to put an enemy combatant for interrogation."
Senator Graham was just one of several Republicans to complain about the Obama Administration’s end run around Congress in bringing Ghayth to the US mainland. They don’t think enemy combatants deserve the same rights as American citizens, rights that could stand in the way of intelligence gathering.
Source:aljazeera
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