WASHINGTON — Sulaiman abu Ghaith, a top al-Qaida leader and Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, was sentenced in New York on Tuesday to life in prison with no possibility of parole, becoming the highest-ranking adviser to the terrorist group to be convicted and now punished in a civilian court in the United States.

Ghaith, 48, was sentenced on three federal charges, including conspiracy to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists. He was convicted in March after federal prosecutors accused him of working alongside bin Laden in an Afghanistan cave after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and serving as al-Qaida’s spokesman by warning, often in grainy videos, that more terrorist strikes were coming.

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