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Four Americans died in the 2012 Benghazi attack: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, [1] and two CIA operatives, [2] Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, [3] [4] both former Navy SEALs. [5] [6] Stevens is the first U.S. ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in 1979. [7]
Abu Salim prison (Arabic: سجن أبو سليم) is a maximum security prison in Tripoli, Libya. The prison was notorious during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi for alleged mistreatment and human rights abuses, including a massacre in 1996 in which Human Rights Watch estimated that 1,270 prisoners were killed. [1] [2] [3]
On September 10, 2012, at least 18 hours before the attack in Benghazi, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in 2001, which called for attacks on Americans in Libya in order to avenge the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi in a drone strike in Pakistan in June 2012. [111]
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the Libyan militia leader convicted for his role in the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, was resentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison, despite ...
Protracted hostilities took place in the city of Benghazi from October 2014 through 2017 between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries. During this battle, from 3 June 2016 to 17 July 2017, al-Werfalli is alleged to have been responsible for the war crime of murder for the execution of 33 prisoners. [100]
The next morning, June 29, many prisoners were rounded up into the courtyards of the central prison, and were shot and killed by gunfire from the rooftops. More than 1,200 prisoners were killed over the course of two days. [1] About 270 inmates from Block 2 and inmates from Block 1 were not shot, but were moved into the military section of the ...
He participated in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. [ 3 ] In a December 2013 article about the attack, The New York Times described him as a central figure in the attack [ 4 ] according to Libyan witnesses, although he had ...
Ofri Bibas Levi, the sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas, an Israeli hostage kidnaped during the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, holds a family picture of Bibas and one of her two boys, at Moshav Giv ...