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US quietly offered $10m reward for Benghazi attackers

Published: 17 Nov 2013 - 06:37 am | Last Updated: 28 Jan 2022 - 04:17 pm

WASHINGTON: The State Department has said it has quietly offered a $10m reward since January for information leading to those behind the September 11, 2012 attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in Benghazi.

The men died when militants believed to have ties to Al Qaeda affiliates attacked a loosely guarded US diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA annex in the eastern Libyan city on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States.

Kerry disclosed the reward in a letter to Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican who chairs the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee and who had written to the secretary of state asking why the State Department had not offered one.

REUTERS