{"id":51433,"date":"2014-06-17T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51433"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:07:34","slug":"ahmed-abu-khattala-benghazi-leader-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51433","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Abu Khattala, Benghazi leader captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=51434\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ahmed-abu-khattala.jpg\" alt=\"ahmed-abu-khattala\" width=\"226\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51434\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Abu Khattala, reputed to be the leader of the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, has been captured by US Special Forces this weekend, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/06\/17\/sources-benghazi-attack-suspect-captured-en-route-to-us\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sources told Fox News that the suspect, Ansar al-Sharia commander Ahmed Abu Khattala, was captured Sunday during a joint U.S. military and law enforcement operation, and will face prosecution in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/other\/us-charges-libyan-role-deadly-attack-benghazi-consulate-f6C10861451\">NBC News<\/a> reported that the charges against Ahmed Abu Khattala were filed under seal last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Abu Khattala, reputed to be the leader of the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, &hellip; <a title=\"Ahmed Abu Khattala, Benghazi leader captured\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51433\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ahmed Abu Khattala, Benghazi leader captured<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51433","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=51433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}