Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan militia leader convicted for his role in the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, was resentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison, despite federal prosecutors seeking at least 60 years to life.
The new sentence comes more than two years after a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled that his original sentence of 22 years was “unreasonably low” and ordered the judge who imposed it to resentence him.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper tacked on six more years to Khattala’s sentence, saying he did not think the crimes for which he was convicted warranted a substantially higher prison term.
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