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The US Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames in the 2012 attack. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)
by Spencer S. Hsu | Oct 16, 2017 | Middle East
Washington- A CIA witness testified Tuesday that the body of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was returned after the September 2012 attacks on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, only after he overheard Libyan fighters discussing whether to tell Americans about a...
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Abu Khattala, photographed shortly after his apprehension by US Special Operations forces near a villa south of Benghazi, Libya, on the evening of June 15, 2014. (US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia)
by Spencer S. Hsu | Jun 12, 2017 | Middle East
Under a nearly full moon, a small boat pulled away from the Libyan coastline. A bearded man sat on board, masked, handcuffed and gagged until out of shouting range of land. After 20 minutes, armed guards lowered him into a shallow pit in the deck of a second vessel to...