Bin Laden’s son-in-law is not an ‘accidental terrorist’: Prosecutor

He was no "accidental terrorist."

That's the message a prosecutor had for a Manhattan federal jury that will decide the fate of Obama bin Laden's terror-preaching son-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith.

While delivering closing arguments to jurors, assistant U.S. Attorney John Cronan said the al-Qaeda leader recruited Abu Ghaith to be the group's "mouthpiece" immediately following 9/11 to spread a "message of hate" against America through a series of audio and video tapes aimed at recruiting Muslim militants to join its cause.

"In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001,… al-Qaeda needed to send a message: a message that al-Qaeda's attacks of Sept. 11 were justified, that the attacks were deserved and that the US got what it deserved, a message to Americans that it would happen again," he said.

"So just hours after four planes came crashing into our country, amid al-Qaeda's savage success and the other chaos of that terrible day, Osama bin Laden turned to this man," added Cronan, while pointing to a stone-faced Abu Ghaith, who was dressed in a black suit jacket with a white shirt opened at the collar.

Cronan also tried to shoot down Abu Ghaith's comments while on the stand last week, saying Abu Ghaith was not the "accidental terrorist" he claimed to be. He also told jurors the evidence against the defendant — including audio and videotapes of him speaking on behalf of al-Qaeda — is overwhelming.

"He spoke proudly as bin Laden's political mouthpiece," he said.

Cronan also said it is hard to believe Abu Ghaith's claim that he only agreed to meet with bin Laden in an Afghanistan cave hours after 9/11 out of "respect" to the al-Qaeda leader and that he and played no role in the attacks on Americans.

Abu Ghaith has specifically denied knowing in advance about the 9/11 attacks or Richard Reid's botched shoe bomb plot in late 2001 as the feds allege, claiming he only first learned of them through media reports.

He is married to bin Laden's eldest daughter, Fatima. They've been married since 2008 or 2009, according to Abu Ghaith's lawyers.

Abu Ghaith faces life in prison if convicted of conspiring to kill Americans and of providing material support to al Qaeda.

His lawyers will deliver their closing statements in the trial later Monday.

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