Digital Journal learned Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by American troops, who partnered with the FBI in the raid. The suspect is now in U.S. custody “in a secure location outside Libya,” and officials said there were no casualties in the operation, according to media reports.
One official called Abu Khattala’s capture “a reminder that when the United States says it’s going to hold someone accountable and he will face justice, this is what we mean,” the Post notes.
With shadows of the raid that killed Bin Laden, officials described the capture as being safe with no harm coming to U.S. personnel. “No shots were fired, no civilians were hurt and no one else was taken into custody, the official said, in what was apparently a surprise raid,” as the Times writes.
In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report that concluded the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya was “preventable” and that the State Department failed to provide adequate security there.
This week’s capture could be seen as an impressive victory for the Obama administration, despite the many critics who deride the 2012 attacks as a lapse in government and army oversight.
