Osama bin Laden's son-in-law is being held in a super-secret 'terror wing' of a fortress-like federal prison that has housed some of the most notorious criminals of recent memory. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of conspiring to kill Americans on 9/11, is in a cell that's eight feet by 12 feet inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He's locked up just blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center where nearly 3,000 people were killed on 9/11. The grim MCC is a mini Guantanamo Bay where prisoners are locked up for 22 hours a day. Hook-handed preacher of hate Abu Hamza, who was deported from Britain to face terrorism charges in the same court, is also in the same jail on the Terror Wing reserved for high risk inmates.
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Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday
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He's being held in the 'Terror Wing' at Metropolitan Correctional Center - less than a mile from where World Trade Center stood
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Jail has housed some of the most notorious criminals over the years, including mob boss John Gotti and 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef
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Building looks like a fortress and cells are said to be filthy and comparable to jail depicted in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo
'Terrorist:' Ghaith is the highest ranking member of Al Qaeda to appear in a @placeholder civilian court