FBI ID's Benghazi suspects - but no arrests yet

[Valin]

AP:

 

KIMBERLY DOZIER

5/21/13

 

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.

 

The men remain at large while the FBI gathers evidence. But the investigation has been slowed by the reduced U.S. intelligence presence in the region since the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks, and by the limited ability to assist by Libya's post-revolutionary law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which are still in their infancy since the overthrow of dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

 

The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants and holding them at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The preference is toward a process in which most are apprehended and tried by the countries where they are living or arrested by the U.S. with the host country's cooperation and tried in the U.S. criminal justice system. Using military force to detain the men might also harm fledgling relations with Libya and other post-Arab-Spring governments with whom the U.S. is trying to build partnerships to hunt al-Qaida as the organization expands throughout the region.

 

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[Pepper]

@Valin

 

"The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack..."

 

Let me fix that for you

 

Those in the American public who are awake have identified five individuals who might be responsible for the deaths of the four Americans...

 

Obama, Hillary, Panetta, Matthew Olson, Victoria Nuland

[Valin]

@Valin

 

"The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack..."

 

Let me fix that for you

 

Those in the American public who are awake have identified five individuals who might be responsible for the deaths of the four Americans...

 

Obama, Hillary, Panetta, Matthew Olson, Victoria Nuland

 

Care to find out something interesting? Google Victoria Nuland and look at who she is married to.

I don't think it really means anything, but it is interesting.