Al-Qaeda operative Spin Ghul has been indicted in New York, the FBI's New York field office announced in a series of tweets today.
Ghul, whose full name is Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, was "associated with al-Qaeda since '01, traveled to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia for jihad, arriving before the 9/11 attacks," according to the agency's Twitter.
According to a press release from the FBI, Ghul "was extradited from Italy to the United States on October 4, 2012, and arraigned in a sealed proceeding in federal court in Brooklyn, New York on October 5, 2012." The case is scheduled for a public status conference at the U.S. courthouse in Brooklyn on March 22.