{"id":39215,"date":"2014-01-08T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39215"},"modified":"2014-01-08T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:22:25","slug":"state-department-gitmo-alum-at-benghazi-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39215","title":{"rendered":"State Department; Gitmo alum at Benghazi assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/former-guantanamo-detainee-implicated-in-benghazi-attack\/2014\/01\/07\/c73fdf78-77d5-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that &#8220;US officials&#8221; suspect that Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a graduate of the Guantanamo program led at least some of the thugs at the September 11th, 2012 assault on the US consulate at Benghazi, Libya;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State Department is expected to tie Qumu\u2019s group to the Benghazi attack when it designates three branches of Ansar al-Sharia, in Darnah, Benghazi and Tunisia, as foreign terrorist organizations in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Qumu was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent to Libya, where he was detained. The Libyan government released him in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He and two other men, militia leaders Ahmed Abu Khattala and Seif Allah bin Hassine, will be identified as \u201cspecially designated global terrorists,\u201d a determination that allows U.S. officials to freeze their financial assets and bar American citizens and companies from doing business with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, so we can go through the trouble of looking for the little peckerhead all over again. Yet more proof of how our &#8220;catch and release&#8221; program in regards to terrorism is working so well.<\/p>\n<p>State should probably clear this with the New York Times before they announce it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that &#8220;US officials&#8221; suspect that Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a graduate of &hellip; <a title=\"State Department; Gitmo alum at Benghazi assault\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39215\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Department; Gitmo alum at Benghazi assault<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}