Ghaith was turned over to US authorities a year ago this month after being arrested by officials in Amman, Jordan.
Last week, Ghaith unexpectedly took the stand in his own case and testified about his relationship with the former Al-Qaeda leader.
“I want to deliver a message to the world. — I want you to deliver the message,” Ghaith quoted bin Laden as telling him on the night of the Sept. 11 attacks.
“He admitted to certain things that we all knew the government would seize upon to support its case,” defense attorney Stanley Cohen said of his client’s testimony during a recent interview with the Jewish Daily Forward. “Abu Ghaith could have just as easily said I don’t know or lied, but he didn’t.”
Ghaith was no more than a “deer in the headlights,” who happened to be “in the wrong place in the wrong time,” Cohen said he believed.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the Al-Qaeda operative and alleged 9/11 mastermind who is currently being held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp — released a statement during the trial in which he claimed that Ghaith “did not play any military role, and to the best of my knowledge, he did not receive any military training at any of the training camps for the mujahedeen in Afghanistan.” The government refused to have KSM’s testimony heard by the court.
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