Posted on 11/28/2017 1:40:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — A federal court jury here found a Libyan man guilty Tuesday of playing a role in the infamous terrorist attack on a U.S. government compound in Benghazi, Libya. But he was acquitted of charges that his actions lead to the deaths of four Americans.
Five years after the Sept. 11, 2012, raid that killed a U.S. ambassador, Ahmed Abu Khatallah was found guilty of helping to plan and carry it out. It is the first conviction to stem from the deadly attack.
Prosecutors said Khatallah was among 20 people who stormed the U.S. mission with machine guns and grenade launchers, set it on fire, and later attacked an annex, killing US. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans — Glen Doherty, Sean Smith, and Tyrone Woods.
But in a big setback to prosecutors, the jury found Khatallah not guilty on charges that his actions led to the deaths of the Americans.
Of 18 counts in the federal indictment, he was convicted of four: destroying U.S. government property, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, and two counts of providing support to a terror organization.
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Notice the time frame. The attack was planned for more than a year!
Video my @ss!
This deserve greater play.
That’s ridiculous. He is certainly complicit to murder. And it was a really horrible murder.
Incompetent prosecutors for the government! Hopefully someone “finds” him in an alley some morning
“Plan”? I have it on record from a very reliable source, a presidential candidate, no less, that it was a “spontaneous demonstration”!
If I was on the jury I would have been sorely tempted to acquit on all charges just because the U.S. government has no business charging anyone with a crime in a situation like that. That was a matter for the military to deal with, not a bunch of useless lawyers.
Speaking of “video,” what ever happened to the guy who did the video no one really saw but he got blamed for anyways?
Hillary’s negligence led to the deaths.
FEDERAL JURY????
Just wondering how much each juror was PAID?
His jury should have been all, average, ordinary American tax payers...
ENOUGH SAID.
Something bad may happen to him.
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