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Mastermind behind Benghazi attack arrested and in US custody as Bondi takes dig at Hillary Clinton
nypost.com ^ | Feb. 6, 2026 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 02/06/2026 9:09:43 AM PST by V_TWIN

WASHINGTON — One of the architects of the deadly 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has been arrested and will be prosecuted on arson, murder and terrorism charges, Justice Department officials announced Friday.

“ Zubayr Al-Bakoush landed at Andrews Air Force Base at 3 a.m. this morning. He is in our custody. He was greeted by [FBI] Director [Kash] Patel and [DC] US Attorney Jeanine Pirro,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters at DOJ headquaters. .

Prosecutors “will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law,” Bondi vowed, while Pirro said she and her team “will not stop” hunting down other attackers who remain at large.

“Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?’ Well, it makes a difference to Donald Trump. It makes a difference to those families,” Bondi said Friday.

“And 14 years later, it makes a difference to law enforcement.”

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“It makes a difference to those families,”

True, but we’re also straining at gnats here.


21 posted on 02/06/2026 9:45:41 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Along with her draft dodging rapist husband Bill.


22 posted on 02/06/2026 10:00:05 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: mass55th

Preferably in the middle of the night.


23 posted on 02/06/2026 10:01:23 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: V_TWIN

Mastermind behind Benghazi attack is Hillary Clinton and I don’t think she’s arrested - yet...


24 posted on 02/06/2026 10:06:15 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: V_TWIN

I will wait to cheer until she puts someone in the establishment in jail.


25 posted on 02/06/2026 10:18:22 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: V_TWIN

Attorney General Pam Bondi never fails to amaze the American People


26 posted on 02/06/2026 10:19:26 AM PST by tsowellfan
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To: V_TWIN

27 posted on 02/06/2026 10:42:42 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: BenLurkin

Bingo


28 posted on 02/06/2026 11:44:41 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: ClearCase_guy

But I’d rather see Hillary in a jail cell.

I approve that trade.


29 posted on 02/06/2026 12:06:32 PM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: V_TWIN

I read a very tediously boring book by Sarah Adams in which she catalogued every known player in the assault on Benghazi embassy.
The book may make for some sloggish reading; but I really learned a lot.
She is a former CIA targeter who knows a lot. She still grieves over her colleagues who were murdered. She writes about the intense internecine murders committed, muslim faction on jihadi faction over “territory” and control. I was shocked to learn how involved Turkey is in harboring these assholes. I shouldn’t be shocked, though. Turkey is no friend of ours.


30 posted on 02/06/2026 12:50:48 PM PST by Migraine
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To: READINABLUESTATE

How about the aster mind behind the 2016 election?


31 posted on 02/06/2026 1:51:58 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: READINABLUESTATE

The worse part of that was what she said before that sentence.


32 posted on 02/06/2026 1:54:51 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: PeterPrinciple

That statement was predicated with her saying, “ whether it was a video or just a couple of guys that decided to attack Americans...”

It was a full blown military attack with artillery.


33 posted on 02/06/2026 1:58:04 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: V_TWIN

Interesting that the indictment has been sealed since 2015.


34 posted on 02/06/2026 2:40:40 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: V_TWIN

Met Sarah Adams years ago of Benghazi fame and she said they didn’t want the ambassador there but he traveled to Libya in preparation for Hillary to go there to do a victory lap for getting rid of Khaddafi. Had dinner with her and then interviewed he for about an hour.


35 posted on 02/06/2026 4:49:17 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Who will do the Democrat voting that Americans won’t do? - rightwingcrazy)
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To: Getready

Harold Stassen will be more relevant than Hillary in history books.
Hillary may well be more relevant in the “crimes committed by politicians” ledgers.


and it doesn’t look like their is going to be a Biden Library. If you want to learn about Clinton, Obama, and Biden, you will go to the Trump Library.


36 posted on 02/08/2026 8:15:07 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Getready

Having referenced the Trump Library I began to reflect on how important that is to inoculate the future.

Many will comment on the money or the building etc.

But think about the message Trump will send into the future.

It ain’t bragging if you did it.


37 posted on 02/08/2026 8:22:11 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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