Sources: Benghazi attack suspect captured, en route to US

Fox News – by Justin Fishel

A suspected terrorist linked to the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that killed four Americans has been captured inside Libya by U.S. forces and currently is en route to the United States, Fox News has learned exclusively.

Sources tell Fox News that the suspect, Ansar al-Sharia commander Abu Khattala, was captured Sunday during a joint U.S. military and law enforcement operation, and will face prosecution in the United States.   

President Obama signed off on the mission on Friday night, Fox News is told. He was captured south of Benghazi by U.S. special operators and is on his way to the U.S. aboard a Navy ship.

Khattala was long thought to be one of the ringleaders of the deadly attack, in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died. He had openly granted media interviews since the 2012 attack, but until now evaded capture.

 “He didn’t know what hit him,” one source told Fox News of the weekend capture. According to sources, there was no firefight — a small Special Forces team with one FBI agent took part in the mission.

Fox News’ Ed Henry, Bret Baier and Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/17/sources-benghazi-attack-suspect-captured-en-route-to-us/

3 thoughts on “Sources: Benghazi attack suspect captured, en route to US

  1. wonder if he was coming for that meeting with Hillary?
    oh but what does it matter?

    its sh^t like this that could become an attack on this country, rather than an attack on those that deserve it.

  2. “President Obama signed off on the mission on Friday night, Fox News is told.”

    So that means Obama will take all the credit for it in order to please his ego. Then once the terrorist is here in the U.S. and is convicted, Obama will just let him go and say he’s only a threat to Libya and not to America.

    So in the words of Hitlery, “What difference does it make?”.

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