| Egypt Denies U.S. Access To Benghazi Terror Suspect |
| Feb-21-2013 |
| Keywords: egypt, denies, us, access, benghazi, terrorist suspect |
Billions of dollars in aid, F-16 fighter jets and scores of Abrams A-1 battle takes are scoring the U.S. no favors or courtesy from Egypt's government.
Fox News is reporting that Egyptian President Morsi's government is denying U.S. interrogators to sit in the same room with a Benghazi terrorist attack suspect in custody somewhere in Egypt.
The suspect, Abu Ahmed, is suspected of establishing Islamist training camps in Eastern Libya where militants, who took part in the Sept. 11 Benghazi terrorist attack, trained.
This is the second such occasion that U.S. investigators have been denied direct access to a suspect believed to be involve in the 9/11 terrorist attack that claimed the lives of four U.S. citizens, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
In January, Tunisian authorities released Ali Ani al-Harzi, who is suspected of taking part in the attack, citing a lack of evidence.
FBI agents finally got access to al-Harzi after the personal intervention of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Thomas Joscelyn, with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said some of the militants Ahmed helped train "directly took part" in the Benghazi attack.
Joscelyn, who was the first to report the access problem, said he's been told U.S. officials have asked the Egyptians for access to the suspect but were denied by the Egyptian authorities.
"The Egyptians like to control the interrogations and interviews of these suspects for their own reasons and of course the Americans should want access for our purposes as well," he said.
Neither the CIA nor FBI provided comment on the record about this latest case.
Read more about our government investigators problems with access to terror suspects on FoxNews.com |
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