U.S. captures Benghazi suspect in secret raid
Source: The Washington Post
U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assault has been apprehended, according to U.S. officials.
The officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured near Benghazi by American troops, working alongside the FBI, following months of planning, and was now in U.S. custody in a secure location outside Libya. The officials said there were no casualties in the operation, and that all U.S. personnel involved have safely left Libya.
Khattalas apprehension is a major victory for the Obama administration, which has been criticized for having failed so far to bring those responsible for the Benghazi attacks to justice.
One jubilant official called Khattalas capture a reminder that when the United States says its going to hold someone accountable and he will face justice, this is what we mean.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-captured-benghazi-suspect-in-secret-raid/2014/06/17/7ef8746e-f5cf-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Then ask him did the video have anything to do with the attack. It will be interesting to see what he says and the repsonse from the witch hunters if he said yes the video prompted the attack.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)In their tiny little troll brains nobody is right except them.
Neurotica
(609 posts)I'm sure there will be something...
unblock
(52,208 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)The video had sfa to do with the attack.
Botany
(70,501 posts)" ...... Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured near Benghazi by American troops,
working alongside the FBI, following months of planning ..... "
Gary 50
(381 posts)He will probably thank George Bush.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)They are without shame.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)He should be going to Gitmo and be held as an enemy combatant, Graham said. And it would be the biggest mistake for the ages to read this guy his Miranda rights.
Graham said he is concerned Khatallah is being held on a ship, but said that at the end of the day, Im glad we captured somebody.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/benghazi-suspect-captured-107944.html
Botany
(70,501 posts)I am so sick of this guy's act.
George II
(67,782 posts)That's GREAT news, and bravo PRESIDENT Obama!
How long did it take bush to find bin Laden? He knew where he was hiding, but got away twice.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)Oh wait...
IRS!!!!111!1!111!!!
(just wait... )
Botany
(70,501 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)Response to Neurotica (Original post)
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SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)I'm new to this so-called 'politics.'
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Repubs, why do you want America to lose?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)GOPers are still investigating Benghazi and the IRS is bullshit and they know it. Now there's Bowe B but alas Iraqi is front and center where corporate media is finding veterans who claim that both Bush and Obama are at fault and that they are willing to go back and fight again in the memory of the fallen soldiers. So yea, corporate media wants another major conflict and more Americans and Iraqi's deaths.
War is PROFIT and RATINGS.
Fred Drum
(293 posts)every member of the select committee can demand answers to benghazi...
obama tells them they don't have a need to know, yet
secure interrogation, such as it is, might take some time
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Tax cuts pay for themselves.....except they don't, and as a result the country claims poverty and cuts programs while the upper reaches of the income scale amass fortunes and buy influence and protection.
Deficits don't matter....except they do (well they REALLY matter when the other party is in charge, regardless of who wrote the blank checks in the first place...).
Obamacare will bankrupt the country and lead to death panels....except it did no such thing and is actually saving lives and performing as well as could be expected.
"The Stimulus" will bankrupt the country and lead to soup kitchens for all...except it was too small and BARELY held off a second Depression.
Gay Marriage would bring on the total disintegration of Western society...except no one notices it any more unless its still illegal out of spite, fear and hatred.
Climate change is a "hoax", except its already a major issue in many places and poised to become a massive issue everywhere in the next couple decades.
Iraqis will greet us as liberators....except they didn't, and it cost the lives of nearly 5,000 Americans as a result.
"Mission Accomplished"....except it wasn't, and never can be at the point of a rifle or a tank or in the crosshairs of a missile strike or drone...because the actual "mission" was never stated in the light of day in the first place and because the regional hatreds and blood feuds we stepped into have been going on for over 1000 years with no sign of abating EVER.
"Bin Laden determined to strike inside US"...OK, you've covered your butt....except you missed the point entirely and ended up allowing 3,000+ people to die as a result.
"No one could have predicted this (9/11)" (Condie)....except they had.
"Saddam has WMD, we know it and we know where they are" (Darth Cheney)....except it was false, they weren't there, EVER.
"The evidence is incontrovertable....Saddam has WMD" (Colin) .... except you were being politically executed Mr. Powell, and marched to the gallows like a good soldier, no blindfold needed.
About the only factual utterance from a conservative mouth in the last 30+ years was Reagan, when already clearly suffering from his Alzheimer's Disease he stated over and over that "I don't recall" when asked about Iran-Contra.
lucca18
(1,241 posts)And, what have we seen from the corporate media in recent days......All of Bush's advisers, that had been consistently wrong on everything!!
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)they were complaining that nothing was being done.
Gosh, guess they were wrong again, along with the MSM
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)Such cool-headed patience, use of solid intelligence, and shrewd, tactical execution must be excruciating to the neocon knee-jerkers. Such impulsivists would have had us go in, gunz-a-blazin', flags a-flyin', destroying anything and everything in a purple-faced fit of fury and causing death for untold numbers, and costing us billions as we "sow the seeds of democracy." Right.
Shrink-wrapped pallets of hundred dollar bills to be "lost" (likely funneled back into GOP coffers by rightwing-affiliated defense contractors)--that aint gonna happen.
Despite the rising chorus of plaintive wails from the usual detractors on the wrong side of history, today is a good day for America. Too bad they aren't American enough to share in the good news of a job well done. Screw them all!
We are allowed to bask in schadenfreude!
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)To shift attention away from: Benghazi...
...wait...
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