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US seize Benghazi raid 'ringleader' US seizes Benghazi raid 'ringleader' Ahmed Abu Khatallah
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A suspect in the September 2012 raid on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead has been captured, the Pentagon has said. The suspected ringleader in the September 2012 raid on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead has been captured, the Pentagon has said.
Ahmed Abu Khatallah was taken into custody in a secret raid in Libya on 15 June. Ahmed Abu Khatallah was taken into custody in a secret US military raid in Libya on 15 June.
He is now being held in a secure location outside Libya, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed. He is now being held in a secure location outside the country, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed.
A US ambassador and three others were killed in the attack. US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the attack.
"There were no civilian casualties related to this operation, and all US personnel involved in the operation have safely departed Libya," Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm John Kirby wrote in a statement.
Militant groups
The US describes Mr Khatallah as a "key figure" in the 11 September 2012 attack in which gunmen stormed the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and set it on fire.
The White House initially said the attack stemmed out of anti-American protests over a crude video produced in the US that was deemed insulting to Islam.
Government investigators soon determined it was an organised attack planned by local militias, although the New York Times claimed after an extensive investigation that some of the attackers were indeed motivated by the film.
The US quietly offered as much as $10m (£6.2m) for information in the months following the attack.
In the subsequent years, the incident has become a political lighting rod, with Republicans accusing President Barack Obama's administration of covering up the involvement of militant groups in the days after the attack in order to protect Mr Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
In May, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to establish a committee to investigate the White House response to the attack.
The special panel was approved by a largely party-line, 232-186, vote and is said to be the eighth inquiry on Benghazi.
Previous independent, cross-party and Republican-led inquiries have blamed the state department for inadequate security at the embassy.
Republicans have been very critical of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is now weighing a 2016 presidential run.