New York: Then prosecutors showed nearly 2 minutes of an 8-minute videotape from Oct. 13, 2001, in which Abu Ghaith threatens America again, saying some in the U.S. had not understood the gravity of his earlier message.
"The storm of aircrafts will not stop," he said at one point, according to an English translation of Arabic statements that was introduced as a court exhibit. "We strongly advise Muslims in America and the Britain, the children and those who reject unjust American policies, not to board aircraft and we advise them not to live in high-rises and tall buildings."
Despite many months spent in al Qaeda training camps and locations in Afghanistan from 1999 through 2001, Badat testified that he did not recognize a photograph of Abu Ghaith and did not recall having ever seen or heard him.
Badat said he had seen bin Laden as many as 50 times during his time in camps and guest houses.
During testimony at a 2011 Brooklyn terrorism trial, Badat said bin Laden told him shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorism attack could doom the American economy.
He said he backed out of the shoe-bomb plot in December 2001 because of his reluctance, fear and the effect it would have on his family.
Abu Ghaith is the highest-ranking al Qaeda figure to face trial on U.S. soil since 9/11.
"The storm of aircrafts will not stop," he said at one point, according to an English translation of Arabic statements that was introduced as a court exhibit. "We strongly advise Muslims in America and the Britain, the children and those who reject unjust American policies, not to board aircraft and we advise them not to live in high-rises and tall buildings."
Despite many months spent in al Qaeda training camps and locations in Afghanistan from 1999 through 2001, Badat testified that he did not recognize a photograph of Abu Ghaith and did not recall having ever seen or heard him.
Badat said he had seen bin Laden as many as 50 times during his time in camps and guest houses.
During testimony at a 2011 Brooklyn terrorism trial, Badat said bin Laden told him shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorism attack could doom the American economy.
He said he backed out of the shoe-bomb plot in December 2001 because of his reluctance, fear and the effect it would have on his family.
Abu Ghaith is the highest-ranking al Qaeda figure to face trial on U.S. soil since 9/11.
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