Former Guantanamo detainee was on the ground at Benghazi, says Fox News

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ee-was-on-ground-in-benghazi-night-11-attack/​

A former Guantanamo Bay detainee with Al Qaeda ties was in Benghazi the night of the Sept. 11 attack, according to a source on the ground in Libya.

The source told Fox News that ex-detainee Sufian bin Qumu, who is suspected of running camps in eastern Libya where some of the assailants trained, is also a "respected member" of Ansar al-Sharia -- one of the Islamist groups identified in State Department email traffic two hours after the attack.

Two sources familiar with the investigation, when asked about bin Qumu's whereabouts the night of the attack, did not dispute the claim he was in Benghazi.

His release, surprisingly enough, came during the Bush administration, as he was turned over to Libya on September 28, 2007, after having been at Gitmo for over five years. Ambassador Chris Stevens noted in a communique in 2010 that Qumu and other detainees were supposedly being held in solitary confinement in Libya, so they could not recruit other prisoners sentenced under Libyan law. Now, however, we have now learned that he and others were released shortly after arriving in-country.

 

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