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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 03, 2017, 07:38:01 am
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Ahmed Abu Khatallah, Benghazi suspect, ‘hates Americans with a vengeance,’ prosecutors say
The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com
The criminal trial of the accused mastermind of the 2012 deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, opened Monday with prosecutors alleging that Ahmed Abu Khatallah planned and encouraged the attack because he “hates Americans with a vengeance.”
Prosecutors said Mr. Abu Khatallah didn’t start the fires whose smoke killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. information management officer Sean Smith, nor did he fire the mortar rounds that struck security officers Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Rather he “incited others to do his dirty work,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb.
Read more at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/2/ahmed-abu-khatallah-benghazi-suspect-hates-america/