Fresh proof that Uncle Sam doesn’t forget – Latest News
Zubayr al-Bakoush isn’t the primary key villain delivered to justice for the lethal Sept. 11, 2012 assault on US diplomats in Benghazi, Libya — however his switch Friday to custody pending trial in Washington, DC, continues to be a welcome reminder that Uncle Sam doesn’t forget.
Prosecution paperwork say he led the initial assault on the US Special Mission compound, a drive armed with “assault rifles, other firearms and explosive devices,” starting the 13-hour assault that killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department worker Sean Smith and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
The feds have but to say how, the place or after they apprehended al-Bakoush, however he was first charged in US courts in a 2015 grievance, then sealed till now.
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This follows the 2014 seize by US Special Forces and the FBI Hostage Rescue Team of of assault mastermind Ahmed Abu Khattala, who was handed 22 years of onerous time after being convicted in 2017 — the identical 12 months the identical enforcers nabbed one other high plotter, Mustafa al-Imam, who’s now serving 19 years in jail.
It took almost 10 years after 9/11 to deliver Osama bin Laden to justice, so maybe we shouldn’t be stunned that Uncle Sam has taken so long to get al-Bakoush.
On the opposite hand, it in all probability didn’t help that the Obama administration put its initial efforts into a coverup of the assault’s true nature.
(Not their final lie on the affair.)
This was an Islamist plot to mark the anniversary of 9/11 that caught the Obama workforce totally flat-footed; they spent all of the months till that November’s election shamelessly pretending it was a “spontaneous” riot prompted by an obscure online video.
But let’s stroll away with the phrases of Attorney General Pam Bondi: “If you commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world,” the US authorities will discover you.
“It might not happen overnight, but it will happen. You can run, but you cannot hide.”
Let that at all times be so.
