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A decade later and the terrorist attacked on a U.S. Embssy and CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya is still making headlines. The attack left four Americas dead, including then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that a lower federal court’s sentence of a terrorist actor who took part in the attack in Benghazi was too low. They said it was well below established sentencing guidelines for similar federal crimes.
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, 51, was originally convicted in 2018 on several counts for his involvement in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on U.S. intelligence and diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
Fox News reported:
The 22-year sentence for a Libyan militant convicted of four terrorism charges for his involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack is “unreasonably low,” a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, 51, was convicted of four counts in 2017, including providing material support to terrorists and destroying US property, but was acquitted on the most serious charges.
Sentencing guidelines said that Khatallah should have been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, according to prosecutors.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Tuesday that 22 years in prison is nowhere long enough for Khatallah “given the gravity of such an assault on an American diplomatic facility and the district court’s own recognition of the vital need to deter such crimes.”
“In sentencing Khatallah to just twelve years for the two support-of-terrorism counts and the property destruction count, the district court did not—and could not on this record—sufficiently justify its additional variance so far below the sentencing range that would have been appropriate even without any consideration of acquitted conduct,” the three-judge panel noted in the ruling.
Attorneys for the convicted terrorist filed a motion for a mistrial before and also after his initial verdict. They appealed his sentence in 2020, but federal prosecutors then cross-appealed.
Following the appeals court decision, Khatallah’s case has been remanded back to the lower federal courts for resentencing.
Following the attack in Benghazi, Obama’s administration was highly criticized for their irresponsible inaction despite warnings and signs of an attack.
Hillary Clinton was singled out because as the then Secretary of State, she sent no security even though Amabssador Stevens has requested for increased security on a number of occasions.
GOP controlled Congress at the time he they launched an investigation into the attack. The committee released an 800-page report in June 2016.
According to Politico, “the report drilled down on new details about how Clinton’s State Department failed to protect the diplomatic outpost in Libya. The report also said that the CIA missed the looming threat despite warnings and wrote faulty intelligence reports after the attack. And GOP staff said their findings indicate that the Defense Department did not meet its response times to deploy military assets to Benghazi and follow-up to ensure Americans were rescued in a timely fashion.”
“The report includes new specifics about a U.S. teleconference convened by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough during the attack. According to the report, some participants on the videoconference were unsure about what each agency was doing to rescue Americans,” Politico continued. “State Department officials on the call also brought up concerns about whether Marines who might have been deployed to Benghazi were wearing uniforms, the report found — something officials previously said could hurt diplomacy in the region. One commander told the committee he and his men over the course of three hours kept having to change from uniforms to civilian clothes.”
Obama never ended up deploying the miliarty to Benghazi.
So, Obama and Hillary should receive the same sentence. Staring immediately…lock them up!
Charge them with TREASON and punish according to the Constituition
I Agree, They Should Have Took Action To Save Them..
No, HANG for TREASON!!!! obama released and cleared the CRIMINAL records of 500,000 MURDERERS and PEDOHILES in 2018, SMACK in the middle of Trump’s Presidency!!!!! CRIMINAL help for the PRESENT Democratic HOLOCAUST, directed and OWNED by George Soros!!!! WOKE YET????
AMEN!!
It’s already been way too long – they have gotten away with murder -literally! Obama, Clinton, ALL of them should be convicted of treason and sentenced to the most horrible sentence possible!
Than why did you Americans allow corrupt democrats voter fraud and still do to this day!
Nothing HORRIBLE about HANGING your GARBAGE OUT.
Agreed!
So, how does this compare to POTUS sending a group of armed civilians to the Capital to reverse a free and certified election and destroying the Capital and killing several police officers?
Kathleen you better get your info correct all lies what you said
Kathleen are you malinformed or what?? AImie Babbit a US Air Force Veteran was murdered – shot inher head — by Michael Byrd a very shady Capital Cop with many problems in his past — No one killed any police officers Where yo get this ridiculous information frightens the ordinary citizen – Please correct your misinformation
So ,YOU have undeniable facts and PROOF that then President DJ Trump caused this RIOT and tried to overthrow the GOVERNMENT. Please show it to us .
And you probably didn’t have a problem with the previous summer of burning and looting of most of the country, which killing black people trying to protect their property seemed to be overlooked by the black lives matter campaign.
Several police officers WEREN’T killed on Jan 6.. the only person killed that day was Ashley babbit.. and she was unarmed, killed by an officer that had several past disciplinary problems in the past
Absolutely
Absolutely! They are both guilty of doing NOTHING to help those Americans, and it was their duty to do something!
You WILL find out within the next two years what a lot of us Americans (REAL ONES) that the (D) planned and carried All this stuff to get DONALD J TRUMP out of Politics for the rest of his life. WAKE UP and see what is going on in this country right now.
YUPPER
Hang OBUMASS and Douchebag Clinton
Obama and Hillary should be in jail for not saving these americans..really a disgrace
Clinton and Obama CHOSE not to defend the outpost because they hadn’t notified the Libyans that they had established one as it was being used to run weapons to AlQaeda through Turkey and sending security would draw the attention of the Libyan government.
It was a business proposition for them and they didn’t give a damn about those men….
4 men died protecting a criminal operation….
Also-this was an illegal shipment of weapons into Syria-to support ISIS which we set up and funded.
And now the Dems want to prosecute Trump for his inactions on 1/06/21. What is the difference? Looks like two different standards. Do you agree?
Chris knew about Fast and Furious. I pray the ones that did this pay with their souls.
Hilary Hillary leaked Chris stevens where about to the enemy.
It was a very dark day for America. Obama and Hillary should go to Hell for this.
they should both be punished four honorable men died because of oboma an killery
Hillary and Obama are equally responsible for the deaths of these men. Their families have a reasonable expectation in a wrongful death case.
If they don’t answer for their wrongs here on earth they will answer to the one that is in charge and that is GOD. The same as we all will. That goes for all those in charge now who are trying to destroy our country and set up a one world government system for complete control of our government and people.
With all the bull crap going around you all know that they will never be brought to Justice they are all a bunch of assh-les including Sorass,