Saturday, August 10, 2013

Conducting A Legal Offensive To Bring The Benghazi Attack Suspects To Justice

U.S. authorities are waiting to see how Libya will cooperate in the manhunt for the alleged consulate attacker.

U.S. Charges For Benghazi Attack Suspect Open U.S. Options -- US News and World Report

A legal framework is an important first step to detaining, prosecuting alleged consulate attackers.

News that the U.S. has formally charged one of the suspected Benghazi attackers will likely do little to intimidate the enemies of the West, but it does open the floodgates for a legal response.

Reports circulated Tuesday that the U.S. Justice Department has filed charges against Ahmed Khattalah, the leader of a violent Libyan militia believed to have carried out the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi last September. His whereabouts are not publicly known, and it is unclear whether the Libyan government can detain him for prosecution.

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My Comment: This lawfare/legal approach was tried and promoted before 9/11 .... a policy that became a disaster if you asked me. A dozen years later .... we are now doing the same thing, hoping again that a legal approach will stop these individuals and groups from conducting terror attacks against us. My prediction .... this will fail also.

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