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Abu Ahmed, also known as Mohammed Jamal, is suspected of establishing Islamist training camps in Eastern Libya where militants who took part in the Sept. 11 Benghazi terrorist attack were able to train.
Ahmed is not suspected of directly taking part in the attack which left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead. But this is at least the second time U.S. interrogators have been denied access to a suspect held by a foreign government.
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.
“As early as 2011, he was setting up training camps inside eastern Libya as early as 2011 … and they were drawing in recruits from around North Africa and Egypt — if you bring them in, train them in terms of how to operate mortars and various types of heavy artillery, and it’s that type of artillery that was used in the attack in Benghazi.”
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.
Separately, sources familiar with the case told Fox News that Egyptian authorities have been providing to U.S. authorities information from their own investigation of Ahmed Read Complete Store Here:
U.S. gift of F-16 fighters headed to Egypt, despite Morsi’s Harsh Rhetoric
Four
F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. this morning, bound for Egypt as part
of a foreign aid package critics say should have been scrapped when the
nation elected a president who has called President Obama a liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children.“A source who works on the naval air base in Fort Worth, Texas, confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes to FoxNews.com. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a foreign aid deal signed in 2010 with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally.”
Critics,
including several in Congress, say it doesn’t make sense to follow
through with the package, given that new Egyptian President Mohammed
Morsi, elected last summer, has given decidedly mixed signals about
relations with the U.S. While he has toned down his rhetoric since his
election, in 2010 – the same year the aid package was struck – Morsi
attacked Obama for supporting Israel.
“It is appalling that the Obama Administration would send F-16s and 200 military tanks to Egypt in the wake of the instability, [and the] anti-American and anti-Israel atmosphere.”Rep. Louie Gohmert, (R-Texas)






