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2014-06-17 Africa North

US seizes Benghazi raid 'ringleader' Ahmed Abu Khattala

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-06-17 13:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 OK, so for a couple years the president of the united states has said this was a spontaneous event brought on by a video. We have the head of the state department validating the video theory and commenting that it does not matter. Literally mountains of evidence from our government leadership claiming it was spontaneous. Congress is in the middle of an investigation and the government has held their ground. Now we arrest the mastermind? The defense attorneys will make a circus out of the United States with this... They should interrogate him and throw him overboard...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-17 15:20|| 2014-06-17 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing here regarding Khattala's anger of the video.

Ahmed Abu Khattala (born c. 1971) is a Islamist militia commander in Libya, a commander of Ansar al-Sharia militia. He is suspected of participating in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in which the American Ambassador and three other Americans were killed.[1] In a December 2013 investigation of the attack, the New York Times described him as a central figure.[2] Abu Khattala denies killing the Americans or being part of the attack.[3]
Abu Khattala spent most of his adult life in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, jailed by the Qaddafi government for his Islamist views.During the uprising against Qaddafi in Libya, he formed his own militia of "perhaps two dozen fighters", naming it Obeida Ibn Al Jarra for an early Islamic general.[3] He later became involved in Ansar al-Shariah, a "group of as many as 200 militants" who, had broken away from the other militias in 2012 in protest of those militia's support for parliamentary elections in Libya.[3] He opposes American involvement in Libya and in interviews with the New York Times stated that the enmity between the American government and the peoples of the world is an old case. In regards to the role of the air campaign of NATO that overthrew Colonel Qaddafi, he believes that if NATO had not intervened, God would have helped us. He also claimed that, We know the United States was working with both sides and considering splitting up" Libya.[3]

Witnesses of the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi say they saw him leading the attack.[4] On 6 August 2013, U.S. officials confirmed that Abu Khattala had been charged with playing a significant role in the attack. According to NBC, the charges were filed under seal in Washington, DC in late July 2013.[5]

On the weekend of June 14 to June 15, 2014, U.S. special forces, in coordination with the FBI, captured him in a covert mission in Libya.[6]

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 15:28|| 2014-06-17 15:28|| Front Page Top

#3 after his custody in the hands of our govt, expect him to testify that 'the video made me do it' at a time crucial to the admin

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-17 19:25|| 2014-06-17 19:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Shade of Abbotabad raid but widout capturing or killing Osama???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-17 20:17|| 2014-06-17 20:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Hillary just indicated she wants the Benghazi leader tried in a US Court. These politicians are so terrorist friendly, they need to be tried in a US Military Court.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-06-17 22:02|| 2014-06-17 22:02|| Front Page Top

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