Benghazi terrorist acquitted of murder

Arutz Sheva ^ | 29/11/17 | Elad Benari

[Eleutheria5]

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Libyan terrorist Ahmed Abu Khattala on terrorism charges related to the 2012 attacks on U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, but acquitted him of murder, the most serious charge he faced, reported The Hill.

Abu Khattala, 46, was convicted on four counts, including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. At the same time, he was also acquitted of 14 other charges.

He faces up to 60 years in prison.

Abu Khattala, a leader of the terrorist organization Ansar al-Sharia, was captured by American forces in Libya in June of 2014, and has previously denied any connection to the Benghazi attack.

He was the first person charged in the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound and a CIA station in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

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[Eleutheria5]

So long as he's locked up, we should provide him with free entertainment. Feed Innocence of Islam video in never-ending loop on his television set. That and Hillary saying "at this point what difference does it make" and cackling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6czeTuNEU

[Eleutheria5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip6czeTuNEU

[Defiant]

Why isn’t he in Gitmo? Why a trial in DC, one of the few places (with San Francisco and Seattle) where the residents side with the terrorists? Is this another Sessions failure?

[UCANSEE2]

I have a question.

Why do we drag these people back to the US and put them on trial as if they were US citizens ?

[LIConFem]

"Why a trial in DC, one of the few places (with San Francisco and Seattle) where the residents side with the terrorists? Is this another Sessions failure?"

It's not a Sessions failure, it's a larger policy issue. We, for some idiotic reason, like to put terrorists on trial, as though they just knocked over a liquor store. These terrorists did not commit their heinous acts in the US, so it's beyond me why they were brought back here and given due process rights under our constitution. They should have been located and dispatched with extreme prejudice. They had no right to a trial.

[Magnum44]

Ask Obama.

[vette6387]

It’s actually worse than that. US Law on the crime of Murder and those actions for which killing someone is considered murder under the law. Unfortunately, US law doesn’t specifically list Terrorism in connection with Murder, hence the murder charges had to be withdrawn. Some former DOJ lawyer was on with Lou Dobbs tonight explaining the screwup.

[UCANSEE2]

Ask Obama.

Non productive. He would just lie.

[Defiant]

I agree about the stupidity of putting terrorists on trial as though they were common criminals. Even if you do that, though, why on earth would you hold the trial in DC? Even NY is anti-terrorist, after 9-11. Could get a conviction anywhere else, except maybe San Francisco and Seattle.