... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...
's son-in-law and former Al-Qaeda front man Sulaiman Abu Ghaith to life in prison on Tuesday.
The 48-year-old Kuwaiti, who has defended the September 11, 2001 attacks, was found guilty on March 26 of plotting to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists.
Before the sentence was handed down in a US federal courtroom, Abu Ghaith spoke in Arabic through a translator to say the only judgment he would accept was that of Allah.
"Today when you are shackling my hands, and intend to bury me alive, you are unleashing the hands of thousands of Moslems and they will join the rally of free men," he said.
Judge Lewis Kaplan said Abu Ghaith failed to show remorse for the September 11 attacks and told the courtroom he remained a menace.
"You continue to threaten," Kaplan said. "What you have done warrants the maximum sentence."
Abu Ghaith is the highest ranking Al-Qaeda leader ever held in a prison on US soil.
In a September 12, 2001 video he is seen sitting alongside Bin Laden and current Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
justifying the September 11 attacks and promising more bloodshed.
In a video from October 2001 he repeated his threat, vowing "the storm of the planes would continue" in a video message.
His lawyers asked for a lighter 15-year sentence, arguing that he served 11 years in detention in Iran after leaving Afghanistan in 2002.
Senate Intelligence Committee chief Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
praised the ruling and said the case proved that "those who seek to harm Americans cannot hide and will be held to account."