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The Libyan government rejected any allegations about a massacre in Abu Salim for eight years. On 18 April 2004, Gaddafi admitted that the killings at Abu Salim prison had taken place. [8] [unreliable source?] His speech was part of an effort to normalize relations with Western countries. In May 2005, the head of the Internal Security Agency ...
Was the sole inmate in Spandau Prison from 1966 until his death. The prison was demolished afterwards. Roberto Succo: 1988-05-23 Italy: Suicide by suffocating Serial killer Roy Buchanan: 1988-08-01 United States: Suicide by hanging American guitarist His death is still the subject of fierce debate. Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar: 1989 Saudi Arabia
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]
Benghazi, Libya. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This is not a story about Benghazi. It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, al-Qaeda terrorists, or conspiracy theories. It is, however, a story about ...
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 ...
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]
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has been running for one year and five months and has spent about $4.6 million investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. While that ...
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 ...