By Sky News US Team, in New York
Osama bin Laden's former spokesman and son-in-law has been captured and charged with conspiring to kill Americans and is hours away from appearing at a court in New York.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was captured in Jordan in the past few days and flown to the US by intelligence officials.
He is expected to appear for an initial hearing at a federal court later.
The case marks a legal victory for the Obama administration, which has long sought to charge senior al Qaeda suspects in American federal courts rather than military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Earlier on Thursday US Congressman Peter King credited the CIA and FBI with catching Ghaith within the past week.
Ghaith was handed over to US law enforcement officials under an extradition treaty.
Mr King, a Republican, said Ghaith took part in the September 11, 2001, plot against the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.
He said: "Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al Qaeda. I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."
Ghaith became an international name in late 2001 when he appeared on pan-Arab satellite television urging Muslims everywhere to fight the US and warning of more major attacks.
In one video, he was sitting with Bin Laden in Afghanistan. A teacher and mosque preacher in Kuwait, he was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship after 9/11.
Ghaith's trial will mark one of the first prosecutions of senior al Qaeda leaders on US soil.
Charging foreign terror suspects in American federal courts was a top pledge by President Barack Obama shortly after he took office in 2009 - aimed, in part, to close the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Since September 11, 67 foreign terror suspects have been convicted in US federal courts, according to watchdog group Human Rights First, which obtained the data from the Justice Department through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Republicans in Congress have staunchly opposed bringing terror suspects to the US and fought the White House to keep Guantanamo open.
The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported that Ghaith was passing through Jordan, on his way to Kuwait, shortly after leaving Turkey.
The newspaper said that Ghaith was taken into custody more than a month ago at a luxury hotel in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
But Turkish officials decided he had not committed any crime in Turkey and released him, the newspaper reported.
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