Benghazi, Libya
Gitmo blowback: U.S. officials suspect a former Guantánamo Bay detainee of leading the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Abu Sufian bin Qumu, an Osama bin Laden associate who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, was released in 2007 to the Libyans, who set him free a year later. He now leads a branch of Ansar al-Sharia, the Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the raid, which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. While there is no evidence that al Qaida’s leadership ordered the attack, Qumu does have a personal history of ties to al Qaida as one of the original Arabs to accompany bin Laden to Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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