A lawyer for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is trying to get leniency for the terror thug by comparing his client’s enlistment in al Qaeda to Mayor de Blasio’s visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s to pal around with Sandinistas.
“Al Qaeda wanted to overturn the existing order,” lawyer Stanley Cohen wrote on Thursday to Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan.
“It drew to its ranks young Arabs . . . similarly . . . to the thousands of US college students who flocked to Central America in the 1980s to defend peasant movements and liberationist regimes there against US-backed paramilitaries — such as the current mayor of New York City.”
Cohen’s comments refer to a trip a young de Blasio took to Nicaragua in 1988 in support of the Marxist Sandinista regime.