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SHOCKER: SEIZED BENGHAZI SUSPECT WORKED FOR U.S.

Aligned with American interests against Gadhafi regime

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TEL AVIV – Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattallah, seized by the U.S. on Sunday, once served as a key conduit in an effort staged by the U.S. and Arab interests to aid insurgents fighting in Libya and later in Syria, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials.

It was not immediately clear whether Khattallah himself worked directly with the Americans or if he knew he was part of an effort that involved the U.S..

He did, however, receive funds for his participation in a nexus coordinated by the U.S., Saudis, Turkey and other Arab countries to recruit the fighters that ultimately toppled Muammar Gadhafi’s regime, the security officials said.

Khattallah, the senior leader of the Benghazi branch of the Ansar al-Sharia terrorist organization, was later instrumental in helping to recruit fighters from inside Libya to travel to Syria to aid in the insurgency targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2011, the officials said.

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Khattallah’s participation came to a grinding halt following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks in which he is accused of participating.

Ansar al-Sharia was not yet declared a terrorist organization by the State Department during the period of Khatallah’s alleged work to help recruit Mideast rebels.

Prior to the Benghazi attacks, the U.S. relationship with those linked to Khattalah’s group was so comfortable that it was the February 17th Martyrs Brigade, an Ansar al-Sharia offshoot, that officially served as the armed quick reaction force within the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi.

In August 2013, almost one year after the assault, the U.S. filed the first criminal charges in the Benghazi attack against Khatallah, who was placed by witnesses at the scene during the initial assault on the U.S. Special Mission.

Khatallah’s al-Qaida-linked Ansar al-Sharia group advocates strict Shariah implementation and the creation of the Islamic Caliphate. The group infamously first took credit for the attack in social media while later claiming it “didn’t participate [in the attack] as a sole entity.” Witnesses told the media that not only did they see Ansar al-Sharia men laying siege to the compound, they also spotted vehicles brandishing Ansar al-Sharia’s logo at the scene.

Twelve days after Benghazi attacks, WND first reported on information from Middle Eastern security sources indicating both the U.S. mission and the nearby CIA annex in Benghazi served as a planning center for U.S. aid to rebels in the Middle East, with particular emphasis on shipping weapons to jihadists fighting the Assad regime in Syria.

Egyptian and other Middle Eastern sources said that just after the attacks that Ambassador Chris Stevens himself played a central role in recruiting and vetting jihadists and coordinating arms shipments to the gunmen fighting Assad’s regime in Syria.

Stevens’ original role in Libya was to serve as the main interlocutor between the Obama administration and the rebels based in Benghazi.

The news media churned out numerous reports of U.S.-coordinated arms being funneled to the anti-Gadhafi rebels starting at about the time Stevens arrived in Libya.

In December 2012, the New York Times reported the Obama administration “secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year.”

The article went on to say that the weapons and money from Qatar “strengthened militant groups in Libya, allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Gadhafi government.” The weapons came from Qatar and not the United States, according to the Times.

In March 2011, Reuters exclusively reported Obama had signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for the rebel forces in Libya seeking to oust Gadhafi, quoting U.S. government officials.

Also that month, the U.K.-based Independent reported that “the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi.”

The Times reported on March 25, 2013, that after the fall of Gadhafi, the U.S. began to coordinate aid, including weapons shipments, to the Syrian rebels in early 2012.

The Times reported in its March 2013 article the weapons airlifts to Syria began on a small scale and continued intermittently through the fall of 2012, expanding into a steady and much heavier flow later that year.

From offices at “secret locations,” American intelligence officers “helped the Arab governments shop for weapons … and have vetted rebel commanders and groups to determine who should receive the weapons as they arrive,” according to the report.

The CIA declined to comment to the Times on the shipments to Syria or its role in them.

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Former Guantanamo Detainee May Have Organized Benghazi Attack

Abu Sufyan bin Qumu, a leading Libyan terrorist, named as possible key organizer of 2012 Benghazi attack.

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By Elad Benari

First Publish: 1/9/2014, 3:13 AM

Fire near U.S. consulate in Benghazi

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American officials have identifieda former inmate of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as a possible key organizer of the Benghazi attack which killed the ambassador to Libya 16 months ago, the BritishGuardian reported on Wednesday.

Abu Sufyan bin Qumu, a leading Libyan terrorist, was named at the time as a possible suspect in the September 11, 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi in which the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed.

He went to ground shortly afterwards and no evidence was ever forthcoming. However, the Washington Post reports that he and two other men will soon be added to the U.S. list of "specially designated" international terrorists, partly because of their alleged involvement in the attacks.

The disclosure is doubly important, firstly because it charges a known Al-Qaeda associate in Benghazi with partial responsibility for the attack and secondly because the analysis provided by U.S. intelligence claims his men drove to Benghazi from the city of Derna, where he is based, on the day of the attack, suggesting some element of planning.

A bitter political row has ensued ever since the attack, with Republicans claiming that the Obama administration deliberately tried to mislead the public into thinking the attack was a spontaneous protest that got out of control rather than a terrorist assault, perhaps inspired by Al-Qaeda.

U.S. military leaders have defended their response to the 2012 assault on the consulate in Benghazi. The House Intelligence Committee has accused the White House of withholding support for an FBI investigation into the attack.

No clear evidence has emerged to tie any Al-Qaeda group directly to the attack, noted the Guardian. The man most often accused of orchestrating it is Ahmed Abu Khattala, founder of Libya's Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia.

Abu Khattalah was seen at the compound when it was overrun but, while he has admitted being at the scene he has denied involvement in the attack. He was named in sealed criminal charges filed by the U.S. Justice Department against several suspects in the Benghazi attack.

The Guardian noted that Bin Qumu leads a group of the same name, Ansar al-Sharia, in Derna, and it remains a subject of dispute whether the two are related. The name means simply "Supporters of Sharia".

However, it is several hours' drive from Derna to Benghazi, too far for Bin Qumu's men to have arrived only in response to a protest that had already started, suggesting they at least knew about the planned attack unless their presence was merely coincidental.

There is no comment on whether Bin Qumu was personally present, noted the report.

Bin Qumu is believed to have trained with Osama bin Laden in 1993, and then worked for him as a driver when Al-Qaeda was based in Sudan. He fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, fled the NATO invasion in 2001 and was later arrested in Pakistan and flown to Guantanamo Bay.

He was transferred to Libyan custody in 2007 and released a year later.