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Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the Libyan militia chief convicted for his function in the lethal 2012 terrorist assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, was resentenced Thursday to twenty-eight years in jail, regardless of prosecutors in search of at the very least 60 years to life.
The brand new sentence comes greater than two years after a federal appeals courtroom in Washington, DC, dominated that his unique sentence of twenty-two years was “unreasonably low” and ordered the decide who imposed it to resentence him.
Federal prosecutors had been in search of a brand new sentence of life in jail or at the very least 60 years, however US District Decide Christopher Cooper as an alternative tacked on simply six extra years to Khatallah’s sentence, saying he didn’t assume the crimes for which he was convicted warranted a considerably increased jail time period.
Khatallah was convicted in 2018 on 4 federal prices stemming from his involvement within the assault: Conspiracy to offer materials help and assets to terrorists; offering materials help and assets to terrorists; destroying a federal constructing; and carrying a semiautomatic assault weapon throughout against the law of violence.
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