Military.com reports that Ahmed Abu Khattala, the fellow who was kidnapped from Libya by US Delta operators on June 14th, 2014, to answer in US court for his part in the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi September 11th, 2012, was convicted of only 3 charges (out of the original 18 charges) in a Washington, DC courtroom yesterday.
Khattala was found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to the attackers, destroying U.S. property and placing lives in danger, and using a firearm during the attack. He faces up to 45 years in prison if given the maximum sentence on all charges.
The verdict brought an end to a trial that had been one of the most significant terrorism prosecutions in recent years in a U.S. civilian court, even though the Trump administration had argued such suspects are better sent to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The jury acquitted the terror chief of 14 charges so that he’s facing only 60 years in jail, according to BBC;
He was convicted on four charges including conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, maliciously destroying and injuring dwellings and property as well as using and carrying a semi-automatic weapon during a crime of violence.
Hardly worth the trouble.
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38 responses to “Ahmed Abu Khattala guilty”
If Obama had a son….
Oh, yeah …
Libya? He almost looks like an Uzbek or somewhere else in Central Asia. Looks can be deceiving, though.
This will be appealed, right? Meantime, we get to feed and house him. I think he’d be better off at Gitmo, too.
If, instead of capturing him, we had just droned his ass in Libya, it would have saved the taxpayer a lot of time and money.
Indeed, the precedent of treating international terrorism as a law enforcement matter, despite the use of military force in the tracking and apprehension of terrorists (itself a legally-questionable issue that any competent defense attorney will cover like flies on a turd), has brought about nothing good.
It would be far better to dump the legal facade, treat them as enemy combatants, and terminate the bastards wherever they are found. While Posse Comitatus has its loopholes, making it a military issue of national defense would avoid those issues, plus saving the expense of detainment and trial. I’m sure that a single Hellfire and some jet fuel would have cost less than this shitshow. I know for a fact that a single bullet in either 5.56, .308, .338 Lapua, or .50 BMG would have saved hundreds of million of taxpayer dollars.
“There is but one answer to terrorism, and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle!”
—Theodore Roosevelt
It’s good for the recruitment and radicalization of inmates.
Only thing worse than a martyr is a living martyr in prison who can then use that pulpit. Worked for Hitler and Mandela.
Give him all the pig meat he can eat, THEN HANG HIM!
If it’s an Air Force judge he’ll be out in about three weeks…
If he gets Bergdahl’s Judge he’ll get “Time Served” and an apology.
And then extradited to Canada so they can give him 100 million dollars.
Let’s see if we can follow this:
The same people who always blame inanimate objects, or somebody’s mommy, or anything other than the guy who did something criminal are now holding this guy responsible for his own actions? How does that work?? You mean the guys who refused to offer adequate security to the consulate & environs are blameless?
OK. Got it. Sort of. Because…Bush. …Trump. …video. …space aliens. …global warming/cooling/change deniers.
Peer Review needed, Aisle 4.
Geez, OWB, I wish you had included a spew alert in that!
Oh. 😉
Never had an accusation of needing a spew alert before. Kinda like it, so not gonna make any promises.
You forgot the Russians.
I wish they would have just shot the sob instead of bringing the trash back home?
This mission happened under the rearship of the Community Organizer in Chief, so paragraph 2 of the oporder was “Capture alive in order to not make the muslim kids angry”.
After a thorough “debriefing” of course.
He probably gonna get a few years in jail, until he is pardoned by the next Democrat administration.
He’ll likely be building a following in our federal prison system…converting oppressed minorities to his version of peaceful Islam
Just let the bastard have an accidental fall down the stairs, out the door, and then through the window on the 30th floor into rush-hour traffic.
“Who knew he’d roll that far? Must of been an escape attempt.”
“During an escape attempt he slipped out of the helicopter…” is always good too.
Send him back to Libya.. I understand a HANO jump over the Atlantic can be a little rough.
Sounds like a case of Clintons witness syndrome.
Better yet, just have the Israelis request to extradite him. They’ll be perfectly happy to take him off our hands and deal with him properly.
Just put the word out that he has damning evidence on Hillary Clinton, is scheduled to testify and the next thing we see is him “committing suicide”.
At this point, what does it matter?
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
Yef, maybe you need to stop huffing floor wax while working the floor buffer when you’re on shaft doodey?
Is that a thing? Just think of all the possibilities i missed while TAD to the mess decks as a young AMHAA (E-2).
I think you might want to Google the phrase Yef quoted, API. I think it’s quite apropos in this context – and quite satirical.
I find it ironic that he was found guilty of carrying a semi-automatic weapon. Come on… It’s not like he was in Maryland
Maybe they got confused by the pictures because Baltimore looks like downtown Benghazi due to all the “liberalism” they’ve been infected by?
Should have just given him the standard failure to stop drill on capture and saved the expense of the trial then tossed the corpse overboard with the garbage.
Should have just shoot his ass over there and left him to rot
Instead some nut job liberal will pardon him in a few years
And call him a hero
If Ron Jeremy and Ebony Ayes had a son….
???
Not guilty of Murder, by reason of Insanity.
All twelve of them.
hang him! scum muslim scum!