Qaeda Suspect Facing Trial in New York Dies in Custody
Source: NY Times
HONOLULU — A suspected Al Qaeda leader who was to go on trial in New York this month for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa died in government custody on Friday night due to complications from longstanding medical problems, federal prosecutors said.
The man, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, also known as Abu Anas al-Libi, had had liver cancer. On Wednesday, he was taken to a hospital in New York from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he had been held since shortly after American commandos captured him in Libya in October 2013.
“We write now to inform the court that despite the care provided at the hospital, his condition deteriorated rapidly,” the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, said in a letter to the judge overseeing the case.
Mr. Bharara said that federal marshals had been in regular contact with Mr. Ruqai’s lawyer, who he said was with Mr. Ruqai throughout the day Friday, as was an imam.
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Dying in the arms of a lawyer is punishment enough. 
(To the esteemed lawyers on DU and elsewhere, the above is a joke and not meant to be hurtful or disrespectful. I have three close family members who are lawyers.)
