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The mission to capture Ahmed abu Khatallah, one of the ringleaders of the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya was more than a year in the making. In the months leading up to the raid, teams from the Armys 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, or Delta Force, practiced the extradition on a mock-up of abu Khatallahs compound at Fort Bragg, according to a U.S. military contractor familiar with the planning for the mission. Eventually, it was a Delta Team with embedded FBI agents on Sunday that snagged the man wanted for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department officer Sean Smith and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The Obama administration has come under withering criticism because the whereabouts of abu Khatallah have been generally known.
But other U.S. officials, who spoke to The Daily Beast anonymously because they were not authorized to talk to the press, said the mission to grab abu Khatallah had been planned for more than a year. Indeed, the Benghazi ringleader had been in the sights of Delta Force operators at the end of August, according to these sources, but no order was given at the time. A senior administration official told The Daily Beast that the delay in apprehending the suspect was due in part to requests from the Justice Department to gather appropriate evidence to prosecute him in criminal court. The practice and patience paid off, apparently. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sundays raid resulted in no casualties. Khatallah currently faces criminal charges on three counts, and we retain the option of adding additional charges in the coming days, said Attorney General Eric Holder in a statement Tuesday.
More here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/17/why-delta-force-waited-so-long-to-grab-a-benghazi-ringleader.html
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pinto
(106,886 posts)The Repubs are grasping at straws.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...with Clinton's book publisher.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)And the calls that this is a 'wag the dog' on Obama's part to save Hillary is as deceitful at the engineers of the Iraq War were. Not listening to their lives now, haven't been for a long time.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Makes sense to everyone except republicans. Its not like the guy was a threat to disappear in the mountains of Tora Bora.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)resident is something America must not discuss.
Can Russia go into any country it choices, say Ukraine, and pluck out a criminal element for trial back in Russia without Ukraine approval?
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)do not have nuclear capacity.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)thought you'd show up.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Obama has never rescinded that and in fact follows it quite well, what with his drone strike around the globe.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Extraordinary rendition was just a fancy name for the same thing.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)and without due process and not hide it from the public was because of Bush* and they named it the "Bush* Doctrine" That was and is new to America.. You are correct that the Romans and other Imperialists have done such things for years but not so America, at least not out in the open. It may have been done in a covert manner but Bush* made it a main stream American Value.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)"Ahmed Abu Khattala is reportedly headed back to America where it's believed he will face trial. President Barack Obama ordered the mission Friday, the Pentagon said, after receiving permission from the Libyan government."
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Libyas weak interim government on Wednesday verbally assailed the U.S. capture of a suspected mastermind of the 2012 attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans and set off a political firestorm in the United States..
At a news conference nearly 24 hours after the Pentagon publicly disclosed the special-operations raid that netted Ahmed Abu Khatallah, Justice Minister Saleh Marghani denounced the U.S. military action as a violation of Libyan sovereignty and demanded that Abu Khatallah be returned to Libya....
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi in September 2012. Warning: This photo gallery may contain images that are disturbing to some readers.
We had no prior notification, the minister told reporters. We did not expect the U.S. to upset our political order.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Are they "Pulling a Pakistan" (publicly denying support while privately giving support)
jeff47
(26,549 posts)In fact, they probably could seize someone from the US if they planned it sufficiently well.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)This is a clear win for Obama and the U.S. and Republicans trying out all kinds of specious arguments otherwise are playing with fire by politicizing this. They can't stand it that Obama gets credit for anything, even if it is good for the country. It is just not good enough for them that the guy got captured with no loss of life or injury - no, we should have caught him sooner. Funny, I don't remember any of them harping on the fact that Bush NEVER got bin Laden in seven years.