(IBD) Benghazi Terrorist Suspect Released; 4 Murdered Americans Still Dead

War On Terror: Before we confirm the president's national security  team, let's get some answers to why no terrorists have been captured or killed  after the consulate attack and why the administration doesn't seem to care.

Last Tuesday, the Tunisian government released Ali Ani al-Harzi, a leading  suspect in the attack who was taken into custody after fleeing Libya for Turkey  and then sent to Tunisia. A Tunisian court said he was released for lack of  evidence, but more likely he was released for no lack of pressure from Islamist  groups in and outside Tunisia.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., vice chairman for the intelligence panel of the  Armed Services Committee, has said Harzi was confirmed to be a member of Ansar  al-Sharia, the al-Qaida-linked terror group that took credit for the consulate  attack as it was happening.

Harzi came to the attention of U.S. intelligence investigators after he  posted real-time information to a social media platform about the assault on the  U.S. compound in Benghazi just as it was starting. He is a prime suspect in the  terror attack on Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, his aide  and two Navy SEALs.

While Harzi was interviewed by FBI investigators before a Tunisian judge in  December, after intervention and pressure by Sen. Lindsey Graham and others, no  further action has been taken or progress made.

As Eli Lake reports in the Daily Beast, Harzi's brother is believed to be  Tariq Abu Ammar, a midlevel planner for al-Qaida's franchise in Iraq. Today,  Ammar's main job is arranging the travel of fighters from North Africa to  Syria's al-Qaida-linked opposition.

Before the war on terror was declared over, Harzi would have been plucked by  Navy SEALs and sent to Guantanamo where the same enhanced interrogation  techniques used to find and kill Osama bin Laden could have been applied. We  have returned to the days of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993,  when acts of war are treated as law enforcement matters.

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