Benghazi assault chief resentenced to twenty-eight years in jail

The mastermind and militia chief behind the 2012 lethal assault on a U.S. consulate within the Libyan metropolis of Benghazi was resentenced Thursday to twenty-eight years in jail. 

The sentence handed right down to Ahmed Abu Khatallah, 53, got here regardless of requests from federal prosecutors that he be sentenced to 60 years in jail. They argued his authentic sentence of twenty-two years was “unreasonably low.”

Khatallah was convicted of 4 counts in 2017, together with offering materials assist to terrorists and destroying U.S. property, however he was acquitted on probably the most critical expenses. 

4 People, together with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, had been killed within the assault on a U.S. diplomatic compound and a CIA complicated in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012. 

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A person waves his rifle as buildings and automobiles are engulfed in flames contained in the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi Sept. 11, 2012. 4 People had been killed within the assault, which additionally focused a CIA annex a few mile away from the consulate.  (STR/AFP through Getty Photos)

The U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dominated in 2022 that 22 years in jail is just not lengthy sufficient for Khatallah “given the gravity of such an assault on an American diplomatic facility and the district court docket’s personal recognition of the important want to discourage such crimes.” 

Khatallah was a frontrunner of Ubaydah bin Jarrah, an extremist militia, and sought to incite violence in opposition to the USA due to its presence in Libya, the Justice Division mentioned. The group started stockpiling weapons in early 2012 in anticipation of committing an assault. 

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U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, Division of State worker Sean Smith and CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods had been killed Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. (Fox Information)

The militia attacked the consulate Sept. 11, 2012, set fires contained in the compound and broke into buildings. Hours after it began, Stevens, State Division worker Sean Smith and CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods had been killed within the combating. 

Benghazi quickly grew to become a divisive political situation. 

Congressional Republicans accused President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of deliberately deceptive the general public by suggesting the assaults had been a backlash in opposition to the movie “Innocence of Muslims.” 

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A number of years of congressional inquiries adopted, however the closing report in the end didn’t place blame on any particular particular person.