Posted on 10/30/2017 11:40:57 AM PDT by blueyon
BREAKING: US officials: Special operations forces have captured militant who was instrumental in Benghazi attack, US envoy's death.
If I understand what you are saying is he can provide information about the attack. Even if he says the 4 people killed could have been rescued the Democrats will say that wasn’t known at the time and the press will cover foor them.
The people inside the compound were state department, or other govt. employees who have signed non-disclosure agreements. We never heard from any of them. Don't know how many were injured, who they are etc. Big CYA operation.
Would have been interesting to get their take on their situation and their rescue, but, CRICKETS....
I thought it was Hillary. But we are both disappointed.
Can Hillary or Obama still get him killed before he talks?
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What’s his YouTube handle?
SOCOM Ping
Good summation of Trump destruction of ISIS and Obama’s
I’m sure you’re mistaken. He’s got manners and reserve galore. But that’s the southern gentleman thing. And you do not want to piss off a southern gentleman.
https://www.apnews.com/d04e97fd08e14e4284ac0113e35e306c
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces captured a militant in Libya accused of playing an instrumental role in the Benghazi attacks, officials said Monday, in a high-stakes operation designed to bring the perpetrators to justice five years after the deadly violence.
President Donald Trump identified the militant as Mustafa al-Imam and said his capture signified that the four Americans who died “will never be forgotten.” Justice Department officials were escorting al-Imam by military plane to the United States, where he’s expected to be tried in federal court.
https://www.apnews.com/d04e97fd08e14e4284ac0113e35e306c
here is the rest:
“Our memory is deep and our reach is long, and we will not rest in our efforts to find and bring the perpetrators of the heinous attacks in Benghazi to justice,” Trump said.
The Navy SEAL-led raid marked the first publicly known operation since Trump took office to target those accused of involvement in Benghazi, which mushroomed into a multiyear political fracas centered on Republican allegations of a bungled Obama administration response. Those critiques shadowed Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attacks, through her presidential campaign.
U.S. forces captured al-Imam just before midnight local time Sunday in Misrata, on Libya’s north coast, U.S. officials said. He was taken to a U.S. Navy ship at the Misrata port for transport by military plane to Washington, where he’s expected to arrive within the next two days, one of the officials said.
Once on American soil, al-Imam will face trial in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia as the FBI continues to investigate, the Justice Department said. He faces three criminal charges that were filed in May 2015 but only recently unsealed: killing or conspiring to kill someone during an attack on a federal facility, providing support for terrorists, and using a firearm in connection with a violent crime.
It wasn’t immediately clear how al-Imam was involved in the Sept. 11, 2012, violence. The U.S. attorney’s office said he is a Libyan national and about 46 years old.
Trump said he’d ordered the raid, and thanked the U.S. military, intelligence agencies and prosecutors for tracking al-Imam and enabling his capture. The U.S. officials said the operation was coordinated with Libya’s internationally recognized government. They weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he’d spoken with the relatives of some of the Americans who died in Benghazi: U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department information management officer Sean Patrick Smith, and contract security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Tillerson said the U.S. would “spare no effort” to ensure al-Imam is held accountable.
Al-Imam will face court proceedings in U.S. District Court, officials said, in an apparent departure from Trump’s previously expressed desire to send militants to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In an interview last March with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called Guantanamo “a very fine place for holding these kind of dangerous criminals.”
The commando raid also came amid an ongoing debate about the use of U.S. forces to pursue insurgents in Africa and other locations outside of warzones like Iraq and Afghanistan. Four U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger earlier this month under circumstances that have remained hazy and prompted Democrats and Republicans in Congress to express concerns.
Earlier this month, another man accused in the Benghazi attack, Abu Khattala, went on trial in federal court in Washington. Khattala, captured during President Barack Obama’s tenure, has pleaded not guilty to the 18 charges against him, including murder of an internationally protected person, providing material support to terrorists and destroying U.S. property while causing death.
The Benghazi assault started in the evening when armed attackers scaled the wall of the diplomatic post and moved through the front gate. Stevens was rushed to a fortified “safe room” along with Smith, but were then siphoned off from security officers when attackers set the building and its furniture on fire. Libyan civilians found Stevens hours later in the wreckage, and he died of smoke inhalation in a hospital, becoming the first U.S. ambassador killed in the line of duty in more than three decades.
A nearby CIA annex was attacked by mortar fire hours after the diplomatic complex, killing Woods and Doherty, who were defending the rooftop.
The attack became fodder for multiple congressional investigations to determine what happened and whether the Obama administration misled the public on the details of the bloody assault. Initial accounts provided by administration officials, notably Obama’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, said the attack grew out of a protest against an anti-Muslim internet film. Later, the administration said it was a planned terrorist attack.
A two-year investigation by a House Benghazi committee focused heavily on Clinton’s role and whether security at the compounds and the response to the attack was sufficient. It was the Benghazi probe that revealed Clinton used a private email server for government work, prompting an FBI investigation that proved to be an albatross for her presidential campaign.
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Associated Press writers Maggie Michael and Sadie Gurman contributed to this report.
Ofc the Obamanators could not know as the events were unfolding how much “time” they had to respond, but as the main sequences lasted some 13 hours it is clear that a great deal could have been done from across the region. It’s like you have this great force that could rescue The Alamo defenders within a very few hours, but you say “who cares, we don’t know how long they might hold out, so we won’t bother to try.”
They finally caught the guy who made that one video!
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I sincerely hope I am wrong, but so far I have seen no evidence otherwise. Supposedly he has said he will not look into Hillary activities or the foundation. If true, and I say that because so much fake news abounds, then that is a pretty bad commentary upon his capabilities to be the Attorney General.
Keep rappini on thanks.
Hopefully, he will describe the complex “plan” hatched by the Clinton State Department to “kidnap” Ambassador Stevens, so he could then be “exchanged” for the “blind Sheik”.
It’s too bad no one told Stevens about his “role” in that scheme.
Hopefully, he will describe the complex “plan” hatched by the Clinton State Department to “kidnap” Ambassador Stevens, so he could then be “exchanged” for the “blind Sheik”.
It’s too bad no one told Stevens about his “role” in that scheme.
He’ll lend credence to the “it was because of a video” nonsense! /S
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