Vern Buchanan to Eric Holder: Transfer bin Laden’s Son-in-Law to Gitmo

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, who has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of President Obama's prosecution of the "War on Terror," on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to reconsider the Obama administrations decision to prosecute Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, former al-Qaida spokesman and son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, on American soil.

Earlier this month Abu Ghaith was secretly brought to New York to stand trial for conspiring to kill Americans.

Simply put, foreign terrorists who attack the United States should be treated as enemy combatants, not common criminals, Buchanan writes in the letter. By no means should Mr. Abu Ghaith, a man who sat next to bin Laden when he took credit for the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans, be entitled to the same protections as an American citizen, including a speedy trial and the right to remain silent. That is why I am calling on the administration to immediately transfer Mr. Abu Ghaith to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he can be interrogated, prosecuted and tried by a military tribunal.

Last year Buchanan introduced legislation requiring all terror suspects to be tried by a military tribunal.