US intelligence officials believe a former Guantanamo Bay inmate with ties to Al-Qaeda is “likely” to have organized the attack which killed the American ambassador to Libya last week, according to new reports.
A burnt car is seen parked outside the U.S. consulate in Benghazi Photo: REUTERS
By Richard Spencer, Benghazi11:59AM BST 20 Sep 2012
The former inmate, Sufyan Ben Qumu, is one of the leaders of Ansar al-Sharia, a Libyan militant Islamist group with a high-profile presence in the east of the country that has already been identified by local officials as involved in the attack on the consulate in Benghazi in which Chris Stevens died.
“It was people from Ansar al-Sharia – not all of them but some of them, and I think (the organization) knows who did it.”