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Oops, forgot that was another decade when the US was fighting Islamic terror, a threat to our homeland. Nowadays with democracy established in North Africa, the FBI interrogators have to make an appointment with the judge in Tunisia who provides for an interpreter for the Q&A exchange. We can’t waterboard crucial captives, nor can we rendire the suspects to a favorite Arab nation considered our ally: Libya (Gadaffi), Egypt (Mubarak), Syria (Assad) or Jordan (Abdullah). My bad, the Jordan monarch still holds on to power as are all tirannical monarchs in the Gulf States.
Tunesia has 5,000 mosques of which 400 are listed as considered extreme Salafist with aggressive sermons. I wonder how many young Tunesian men are currently spreading western democracy through Jihad in Syria. Yesterday a former jihadist who returned from battle said at least 100 Tunesians have been martyred. He was desillusioned to what he experienced and said young men from Arab countries were used as cannon fodder. Who is counting the dead in Syria? Bush and Rumsfeld weren’t interested in the number of bodies in Iraq. What has changed, on whose side are we on? The lone suspect in Tunisia has been released today due to lack of evidence. We as westerners know little of the tribal customs, jirga and justice Islamic style. Nusra al-Jihad has been placed on the US terror list, will Hillary Clinton follow through with a request to the Sheikh of Qatar to end sending funds and arms to their group in Syria. Much appreciated.
FBI questions suspect in U.S. Consulate in Benghazi attack for three hours
(NY Daily) Dec. 22, 2012 – The only suspect in the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has been questioned by the FBI, and officials suspect he’s linked to another torching, on the American Embassy in Tunisia.
Ali Harzi, 28, underwent a three-hour interrogation by three FBI agents who posed their questions through a Tunisian judge and a Moroccan interpreter, the suspect’s attorney said. The questioning took place in Tunisia, where Harzi was sent to face charges of being a member of a terrorist organization after being detained Oct. 3 in Turkey.
What Harzi told the FBI agents, if anything, was not disclosed. Defense lawyers were barred from the questioning, because the FBI said they were only soliciting information from Harzi as a witness, not as a suspect. But privately, sources told The Associated Press that Harzi is “strongly suspected” of being involved in the siege of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Defense attorney Anwar Oued-Ali said Harzi was also questioned about the Sept. 14 mob attacks on an American school and the U.S. Embassy in Tunis that left four people dead. The terrorist group Ansar al-Sharia is suspected of being involved in the Tunis attack. Officials believe Al Qaeda terrorists were behind the Benghazi siege. But the questioning of Harzi suggests the FBI is exploring a link between the two attacks.
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The attack was filmed by surveillance cameras and observed by large crowds of witnesses. Several Libyan and American guards who tried to defend the mission and saw the attackers survived the assault. And several Libyan witnesses have identified at least one local Islamist militant seen leading the attack, Ahmed Abu Khattala, to journalists and United States law enforcement agents.
But Mr. Abu Khattala remains at large in Benghazi. This week, in fact, he survived a vigilante assassination attempt; a car bomb reportedly killed the would-be assassin. Libya’s interim government has not disclosed the names of any other suspects or anyone else investigators might have held or even questioned in connection with the attack. And the Benghazi militias who provide the main law enforcement in the city have so far declined to take any action against Mr. Abu Khattala or the Islamist group most widely linked to the attack, Ansar al-Shariah, citing insufficient evidence.
Libyan security chief assassinated in Benghazi by gunmen
TRIPOLI, Libya (Dawn) Nov. 22, 2012 – The Libyan security chief who led an anti-militia crackdown in the wake of the killing of the country’s US ambassador has been assassinated in Benghazi, raising questions about the government’s ability to impose the rule of law.
Colonel Farag al-Dersi, Benghazi’s chief of security, was shot dead by three gunmen in the eastern Libyan city where ambassador Chris Stevens and three fellow diplomats died after the US consulate was overrun on Sept 11. The colonel had been instrumental in seeking to curb the power of extremist militias in Benghazi, banning some and trying to bring others under control of government-appointed officers.
His death is the latest in a string of killings and car bombings in the city, most of them targeting officials who had high-profile roles in the former administration of Muammar Qadhafi. To date none of the assassins have been put on trial.
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