Washington is moving to put the perpetrators of an attack Benghazi on the list of terrorist organizations

Written by: webmaster in December 10 2 / January 2014 . He wrote in the local news

U.S. State Department spokeswoman: No evidence of the involvement of al-Qaeda

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Pointed senior U.S. officials that the State Department is moving to put the two groups, the Libyan Islamic militant on the list of terrorist organizations for its role in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in September 2012, which led to the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and four other diplomats.

The officials - who spoke on condition of anonymity because the State Department has not yet made ​​this decision - the decision to put Libyan organizations on the terrorist list would be applied to each of the Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi and Ansar al-Sharia in the tuber, and Ahmad Abu Khtalh militia commander Ansar al-Sharia who accused him of eyewitnesses

As one of the most prominent participants in the attack on the U.S. Consulate, as described by the newspaper «New York Times» as the central figure in the incident. The organizations will be seen as a «separate groups despite the commonalities between them».

The decision applies to the Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi by the members of involvement in the attack on the consulate, and the Ansar al-Sharia in Derna (a coastal city in eastern Libya known as a center of Islamic militancy), which is described as a separate militant Islamic organization. The security cameras spotted the consulate as well as eyewitness accounts confirms that the group's fighters were involved in the attack.

It is expected that applies decision Sufyan bin Qomu, a former driver for the company was owned by Osama bin Laden and former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, and is the leader of Ansar al-Sharia in the tuber, and showed intelligence reports that Sufyan bin Qomu has constant contacts with al-Qaeda and regional affiliates such as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, but intelligence reports indicated that there was no evidence linking him to the attack.

Reports indicate that Sivian bin Qomu (54 years) was the driver of the tank in the Libyan army before being arrested for 10 years and fled to Egypt and then to Afghanistan, where they were trained in 1993 in one of the camps of al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, and then work After that company in Sudan, then fled to Pakistan and was arrested in Peshawar and handed over to the United States and imprisoned in Guantanamo detainee.

Reports say his nephew, also known as Abu NAS is running a training camp for primitive Islamist fighters near the town of Derna. Abu people have been killed in May 2013 while driving a car packed with explosives detonated accidentally in Benghazi, according to U.S. intelligence officials. In a recent interview with Libyan state television called Sufyan bin Qomu to the application of Islamic limits such as cutting the hands of thieves and leather wine drinkers, in a radio interview in 2012 said he hopes to establish an Islamic state in Libya, similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban.

The decision also applies to the hard-line Islamic Tunisian Saif Abdullah bin Hussein and Tunisian separate organization also called Ansar al-Sharia.

He pointed out that officials were notified Congress of American foreign movements to put those on the list of terrorist organizations, which are expected to be announced officially on Friday. The announcement followed legal repercussions allow the United States to freeze the assets of individuals and groups in the list of terrorist organizations, and prevent Americans from doing business with them.

The newspaper «New York Times» that federal investigators Americans filed criminal complaints against nearly a dozen people suspected of being involved in an accident Benghazi, but the Libyan authorities made ​​it clear that they are not able to arrest or prosecution of suspects due to lack of government police and military forces strong. The newspaper pointed out that the U.S. Department of Defense developed specific plans to arrest Abu Khtalh in a commando raid, but the Obama administration has postponed the implementation of those plans, fearing the impact on the fragile transitional government in Libya.

Over the month of December (December) last newspaper «New York Times» six rings involved in the attack on Benghazi and Abu Khtalh involvement in the attack, but the paper has struggled to assert that al-Qaeda is not involved in the attack Benghazi.

For its part, tried to State Department spokeswoman Jane Bsaki minimizing the communication group Ansar al-Sharia, Libya, al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and said: «There is no indication at this stage that al-Qaeda was involved in the attacks or the plotting her», and noted that the group organizing Al-Qaeda is not officially affiliated to al-Qaeda.