Tunisia will allow Americans to interrogate suspended in the attack on Benghazi consulate
Washington, Benghazi (Libya) - AP, AFP
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Expose members of the U.S. Senate that the Tunisian government has
granted the United States permission to listen to Tunisian detainee
accused of involvement in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
on 11 September last, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three
other Americans.
Said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and fellow Republican Saxby
Chambliss also Friday that they were pushing the Tunisian government to
allow American investigators to listen to testimony on the detainee
suffered Aharza. They explained that the investigators would question the detained Americans under the supervision of the Tunisian authorities.
The Tunisian Ministry of Justice confirmed on Friday that Tunisians
were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi after they were expelled from Turkey.
The ministry said in a statement that the Tunisians were arrested in
Turkey before expelled in mid-October (October) the past based on
information from U.S. intelligence about the role of the two in the
attack, which killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans.
The statement that «one of the suspects appeared before a public
prosecutor in Tunisia who gave permission to conduct investigations into
the alleged crimes he is accused of».
The statement added that «the investigating judge interrogated the
suspect on October 23 (October) and decided to keep him in custody for
the duration of the investigation». The statement gave no information about the second suspect.
The statement did not say whether the two men is a Aharza Ali, a young
man who has been charged last week with belonging «to a terrorist group
abroad».
This young man was arrested in Turkey and deported to Tunisia on
October 11 after a month full of attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
According to the Wall Street Journal on Friday that the U.S. mission in
Benghazi was mainly includes mission of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), adding that only seven out of thirty responsible had been
evacuated from Benghazi after the attack, working for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
On the other hand, hundreds of supporters of the federal capital on
Friday, demanding the Libyan Middle autonomy of this oil-rich region,
which formed the cradle of the revolution against Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi.
Correspondent «AFP» that more than a thousand demonstrators gathered in
central Benghazi before the Tibesti Hotel, demanding «the adoption of
the federal system of the Federal Constitution Permanent upcoming
state», and stressing the necessity «Back constitution legitimate state
for the year 1951 in all its articles with modified materials that
require it in line with the the current situation of the state ».
The demonstrators also demanded in a statement to «re all public
institutions that were forcibly transferred from the territory of
Cyrenaica by the Gaddafi regime».
And Cyrenaica province is the largest of the three regions in addition
to the Libyan Tripoli and Fezzan, and started from the capital of
Benghazi to call for the application of the federal system in March last
year.
The Constitution of 1951, which passed during the reign of the late
King Idris al-Sanusi that Benghazi is the second capital of Libya.
The demonstrators support for the new Libyan government, which won the confidence of the National Conference of the year.
They said in the statement «We declare our full support for the
government elected by the National Congress won the trust of the public,
so that the development of a constitution based on the constitution of
the state forensic 1951».
In the meantime, the cleric killed Friday in the city of Benghazi, while he was heading to a mosque.
He cited the Office of Information Security in the Ministry of Interior
that «unidentified shot on Sheikh Abdullah Alvesa aged 70 years during
Trgelh from his home to the Mosque of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari» in Benghazi.
Alvesa expensive and endowments that will be valuable to the mosque and
Mahfeza of the Quran at his school, and this is the first incident that
targeted the cleric in areas where the Libyan security disruptions.
And saw the cities of Benghazi and Derna in eastern Libya, many of the
assassinations that targeted security officers worked in the hardware of
the former regime.
Wednesday and killed one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Committees
Movement tuber Khaled Net justice after being lead to the launch of the
unknown within the city, according to the member of the local council.
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
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