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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Holder says the successful prosecution of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law in New York shows terror trials can be safely held in the United States.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Holder: Khalid Sheik Mohammad won’t be tried in NY

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

** FILE ** This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. At the center of a hotly disputed Senate torture report is America’s biggest counterterrorism success of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate report: Torture didn’t lead to bin Laden; CIA disputes conclusion

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

This undated image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. With al-Qaida linked fighters and allied tribal gunmen camped on the outskirts, a tentative calm took hold over Fallujah on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 and residents started to return to the besieged city west of Baghdad. Government forces were stationed nearby as sporadic street fighting breaks out in other cities. The picture painted by residents, officials and international groups suggests that both the militants and government forces are preparing for a long standoff with civilians caught in the middle.(AP Photo via militant website)

HUSAIN: Attack on Shiite shrines in Syria may result in dramatic rise in tensions

By Rahat Husain

US official: NY terror case a win for civil courts

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated image made from video and provided by by Al-Jazeera, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, is shown. Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman still maintains that there was justification for the September 11, 2001 attacks orchestrated by al-Qaida upon the United States. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is being tried in a New York City courtroom for conspiring to kill Americans, is using courtroom theater, intentionally or not, to press his case that the United States is such a bully in the Middle East that even killing civilians was justified. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Bin Laden son-in-law convicted at NYC terror trial

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated image made from video and provided by by Al-Jazeera, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, is shown. Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman still maintains that there was justification for the September 11, 2001 attacks orchestrated by al-Qaida upon the United States. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is being tried in a New York City courtroom for conspiring to kill Americans, is using courtroom theater, intentionally or not, to press his case that the United States is such a bully in the Middle East that even killing civilians was justified. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Feds praise verdict against bin Laden son-in-law

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Bin Laden son-in-law who served as al-Qaida spokesman after 9/11 convicted at NYC terror trial

Associated Press

FILE - In this undated image made from video and provided by by Al-Jazeera, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, is shown. Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman still maintains that there was justification for the September 11, 2001 attacks orchestrated by al-Qaida upon the United States. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is being tried in a New York City courtroom for conspiring to kill Americans, is using courtroom theater, intentionally or not, to press his case that the United States is such a bully in the Middle East that even killing civilians was justified. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

No verdict yet in al-Qaida spokesman’s terror case

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

In this courtroom sketch Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, right, testifies at his trial Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in New York, on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaida as a spokesman for the terrorist group. Listening to testimony are Judge Lewis Kaplan, upper left, and clerk Andrew Mohan, center left, as an image of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, appears on a video monitor. In his surprise testimony, Abu Ghaith recounted the night of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when bin Laden sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

Lawyers paint opposing portraits of bin Laden kin

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated image made from video and provided by by Al-Jazeera, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, is shown. Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman still maintains that there was justification for the September 11, 2001 attacks orchestrated by al-Qaida upon the United States. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who is being tried in a New York City courtroom for conspiring to kill Americans, is using courtroom theater, intentionally or not, to press his case that the United States is such a bully in the Middle East that even killing civilians was justified. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Bin Laden associates show no remorse in statements

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

This Tuesday, March. 18, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian man, injured by a government airstrike, walks outside a damaged building in Aleppo, Syria. Activists said Syrian warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out several air raids in the northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday killing and wounding a number of people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syrian troops and rebels clash near Turkish border

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. may free suspected Osama bin Laden bodyguard at Gitmo

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Al Qaeda spokesman recounts 9/11 aftermath

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays - Associated Press

Guantanamo prisoner asks to go home to Yemen

By PAULINE JELINEK - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Friday, March 22, 2013, file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, is shown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS employs former cop convicted of FBI snooping

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Mass. man asks high court to review terror case

Associated Press

** FILE ** This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Ex-al-Qaida spokesman recalls 9/11 with bin Laden

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

The Libyan parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Ali Zeidan last week over anger at the failure to stop rebels from independently exporting oil. (Associated Press)

SEALs’ tanker seizure highlights Libyan power wrangling over oil, power

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

MAY: Middle East future shock

By Clifford D. May

FILE - This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, says Abu Ghaith, who is on trial in New York, had no role in planning military operations for al-Qaida. Mohammed said in a statement filed in Manhattan federal court late Sunday, March 16, 2014 that Abu Ghaith served as an al-Qaida spokesman because he was &quot;an eloquent, spellbinding speaker.&quot; (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Feds: 9/11 mastermind’s testimony should be barred

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press