Why Did It Take So Long To Capture The Key Suspect In The US Consulate Attack At Benghazi?

Why Delta Force Waited So Long to Grab a Benghazi Ringleader -- Eli Lake and Kimberly Dozier, Daily Beast

In echoes of the raid to capture Osama bin Laden, Delta Force operators practiced the raid to capture Ahmed abu Khatallah on a mock-up of his compound at Fort Bragg before going into the real thing.

The mission to capture Ahmed abu Khatallah, one of the ringleaders of the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya was more than a year in the making.

In the months leading up to the raid, teams from the Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, or Delta Force, practiced the extradition on a mock up of abu Khatallah’s compound at Fort Bragg, according to a U.S. military contractor familiar with the planning for the mission. Eventually, it was a Delta Team with embedded FBI agents on Sunday that snagged the man wanted for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department officer Sean Smith and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

The Obama administration has come under withering criticism because the whereabouts of abu Khatallah have been generally known. Journalists in Libya were able to interview him, critics asked, so why couldn’t American journalists track him down, too?

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More News On Why Did It Take So Long For The U.S. To Apprehend The Chief Suspect in The U.S. Consulate Attack In Benghazi

Nabbed Libyan militant lived openly in Benghazi -- Washington Post
Hiding in plain sight: Captured Benghazi suspect an enigma -- CNN
Captured Benghazi suspect did interviews with U.S. media outlets as authorities searched for him -- New York Daily News
Benghazi Suspect Was Well Known To Journalists Long Before His Capture -- Huffington post
Why did it take so long to capture key Benghazi suspect? -- PBS Newshour
Fox’s James Rosen to State Dept Spox: Why Such ‘Egregious Delay’ in Capturing Benghazi Suspect? -- Mediaite
James Rosen to State Department: Why’d it take nearly two years to arrest a Benghazi suspect who wasn’t hiding? -- Hot Air

My Comment: James Rosen (see above video) does make a good point .... why did it take nearly 2 years to arrest the top Benghazi suspect who wasn’t even hiding? Who even made the point of telling journalists where he lived and what was his schedule like. Even Special Forces .... who trained for months for this operation .... when it came to the moment of actually capturing Ahmed abu Khatallah .... were faced with the situation where he actually opened the door to let them in. To say that this entire case is very strange is an understatement.

Update: Why does this not surprise me .... Benghazi Suspect Said He Was Moved To Take Revenge For American-Made Video (Huffington Post/New York Times). Rush Limbaugh certainly called this one right.