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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What difference, at this point does it make?
-Hillary Clinton
Arresting this guy is nice.
But I’d rather see Hillary in a jail cell.
Maybe they can as this guy whether he was outraged by that anti-Muslim movie? He probably won’t know what Jeannie Pirro is talking about.
Yes! Way to go, Bondi!
It’s nothing but a vast right wing conspiracy.....
How about arresting Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice for lying that it was a video that caused the attack?
At least Bondi can claim one 2012 victory since her prosecution of George Zimmerman fell apart.
14 years later.
Its a distraction
Perhaps he’ll spill the beans in time to ask Hillary some relevant questions while she’s under oath for the Epstein hearing. Enough to rattle her good.
Wait - they arrested him more merely going “out for a walk one night”?
“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.
Arresting this guy is nice.
But I’d rather see Hillary in a jail cell.
Officials in the Obama administration suggested in the immediate aftermath that the attack was a spontaneous offshoot of protests over an anti-Muslim video rocketing around the internet.
A select House committee investigation found five years later that Obama officials failed to deploy military assets to Libya.
No diplomatic security agents in Benghazi attributed the attack to a “video” or “protest,” the report also noted, even as the White House used those exact words to explain the bloodshed.
Then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice, for example, had said on Sept. 16, 2012: “What sparked the recent violence was the airing on the Internet of a very hateful, very offensive video that has offended many people around the world.”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) pressed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the failures that led to the attack during a 2013 congressional hearing, leading the future Democratic presidential nominee to snap: “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
Good reminder.
Hope he tells them that they were supposed kidnap Amb. Stevens and exchange him for the Blind Sheik.
I got excited for a second thinking Hilarity had finally been arrested for this crime and others.
Harold Stassen will be more relevant than Hillary in history books.
Hillary may well be more relevant in the “crimes committed by politicians” ledgers.
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