Libyan man sentenced to 19 years in Benghazi attacks.
6 min readAmbassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.A Libyan man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the 2012 terrorist attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi that killed four Americans.in Libya in October 2017 and subsequently brought to the United States to face trial in federal court in Washington, D.C.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who presided over the case, sentenced al-Imam to 19 years and six months in prison, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors, who argued that al-Imam acted as the “eyes and ears” of the mastermind behind the attacks, had sought the maximum sentence of 35 years.
This undated image provided by the FBI in a U.S. District Court filing in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 29, 2019, shows Mustafa al-Imam after his capture in October 2017. A federal judge has sentenced Mustafa al-Imam to 19 years in federal prison for helping to plan the 2012 attacks in Benghazi. The sentence came several months after a federal jury in Washington convicted Mustafa al-Imam of supporting the extremist militia that launched the fiery assaults on the U.S. compounds.On the night of Sept.
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