Posted on 01/24/2020 11:24:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Libyan militant to more than 19 years in prison for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
A jury convicted Mustafa al-Imam last year of conspiring to support the extremist militia that launched the fiery assaults on the U.S. compounds but deadlocked on 15 other counts.
The attacks, aimed at killing American personnel, prompted a political fracas in which Republicans accused the Obama administration of a bungled response.
Al-Imam was sentenced to a total of 236 months behind bars. He is the second militant convicted in the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, communications specialist Sean Smith and security officers Tyrone Snowden Woods and Glen Anthony Doherty.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Washington asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to send a message to others contemplating attacks on Americans overseas, saying al-Imam deserved the maximum 35-year sentence.
“In the current geopolitical environment, terrorists must understand that there are harsh consequences for attacking diplomatic posts and harming U.S. personnel — particularly a U.S. ambassador,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Cummings wrote in a court filing.
Defense attorneys said al-Imam made a “tremendous mistake” by damaging and looting U.S. property after the attacks. But they insisted there was no evidence he intended to harm any Americans, noting jurors could not reach a verdict on the murder charges al-Imam faced.
“Mustafa al-Imam is a frail, uneducated and simple man,” they wrote in a court filing. “He is not a fighter, an ideologue or a terrorist. He is a former convenience store clerk whose main loves in life are soccer and family.”
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He’s a “militant” :)
If a white guy does something he’s a “right wing, Trump loving, gun loving, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, (insert other phobics) no good piece of garbage that needs to die!!”
Militant’ my ass. 19 years of feeding this POS raghead who killed our guys. F***
A firing squad would have been more appropriate for this dud.
Militant??????????
There were two others who facilitated the attack: hillary and bammy. They’re not in jail.
prompted a political fracas in which Republicans accused the Obama administration of a bungled response
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They deliberately lied for a week about some video no one had seen causing this jihad attack.
> He’s a “militant” :) If a white guy does something he’s a “right wing, Trump loving, gun loving...” <
Good point. The Associated Press couldn’t even bring itself to describe this guy as a terrorist. He’s only a militant.
And when you think about it, “militant” isn’t even a very negative word. For example, one could say that I’m militant about keeping my old car in good shape.
Yep.
It’s about the most innocuous word you could use to describe someone like this.
It almost makes him sound like a crusader of sorts.
Why was this tried as a criminal case?
we are a bunch of snowflakes
Did they ever let that poor bastard that made the movie that nobody watched until Hillary and Obama advertised it out of jail?
Yes, he was eventually freed, should have never been locked up in the first place.
Just more crimes to add to the list.
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