U.S. adds new charges against bin Laden son-in-law

[Sugarcane]

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday added two new charges to an indictment accusing Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who once served as a spokesman for al Qaeda, of conspiring to kill Americans.

According to a superseding indictment filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Abu Ghaith now faces charges of providing material support and resources to terrorists, and conspiracy to provide such support and resources.

The indictment was filed less than a month after Abu Ghaith on November 26 failed to win the suppression of statements he had made while being interrogated by FBI agents as he was being flown to the United States to face the original charge. He also failed to win the dismissal of that charge.

Stanley Cohen, a lawyer for Abu Ghaith, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The case is U.S. v. Abu Ghayth, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 98-cr-01023.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Howard Goller and Nick Zieminski)

U.S. adds new charges against bin Laden son-in-law| Reuters