Trump captures Benghazi mastermind as Pam Bondi rips Hillary Clinton over disastrous response to terror attack that left four Americans dead
The Trump administration has captured the terrorist mastermind behind the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead.
Zubayr Al-Bakoush landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland at 3am to face murder charges for leading the Islamist assault on two US government facilities in Libya in 2012.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a press conference Friday: ‘Hillary Clinton famously once said about Benghazi, what difference does it make? Well it makes a difference to Donald Trump and it makes a difference to those families.’
Four Americans were killed in the raid by terror group Ansar al-Sharia: Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
The attack was disastrous for the Obama administration. It took 13 hours to send military reinforcements to Benghazi and initially downplayed the attack as a protest over an anti-Islamic video.
Then-Secretary of State Clinton was blamed for allegedly ignoring previous security requests and for privately acknowledging a terrorist attack while the State Department publicly pushed the video narrative.
The congressional investigation damaged Clinton further when it uncovered her use of a private email server, triggering a separate probe into her mishandling of classified information.
On the night of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at least 20 militants armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers breached the gate of the consulate compound and set buildings on fire.
Zubayr Al-Bakoush landed at Joint Base Andrews in Marylandat 3am
Attorney General Pamela Bondi (C), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel (L) and U.S. Attorney for Washington, DC Jeanine Pirro make a press announcement at the Department of Justice on February 6, 2026 in Washington, DC
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and Information Officer Sean Smith
Security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty
The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012
Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens., Sept. 12, 2012
The fire led to the deaths of Stevens and Smith. Other State Department personnel escaped to a nearby US facility known as the annex.
A large group assembled for an attack on the annex. The assault, including a precision mortar barrage, killed security officers Woods and Doherty.
A team of six security officials summoned from Tripoli and a Libyan military unit helped evacuate the remaining US personnel. They were taken to an airport and flown out of Benghazi.
A Libyan militant suspected of being a mastermind of the attacks, Ahmed Abu Khattala, was captured by US special forces in 2014 and brought to Washington for prosecution. He was convicted and is serving a prison sentence.
His attorneys argued that the evidence was inconclusive and that he was singled out because of his ultra-conservative Muslim beliefs.
A Republican-led congressional panel faulted the Obama administration for security deficiencies at the Libyan outpost and a slow response to the attacks. The report, however, found no wrongdoing by Clinton.
Clinton dismissed the report as an echo of previous probes with no new discoveries, saying it was ‘time to move on.’ Democrats denounced it as ‘a conspiracy theory on steroids.’
