Abu Khattala and additional lawyers from his defense team observed in Washington and could communicate with their colleagues in Cairo by phone. “ ‘As revolutionaries, how can we allow the presence of intelligence, a foreign intelligence entity amongst us in Benghazi?’ ” Abu Khattala asked, according to the commander’s testimony. “He was inciting the people.”In September 2012, Abu Khattala appeared at the door of the officer’s home, where the two spoke alone, he said. “ ‘I want you to provide me with military cars, armed cars,’ ” the commander quoted Abu Khattala as saying. Nobody forced me to come or made me come,” he said at another point in the testimony played Thursday.

Source: Libya Today October 16, 2017 10:30 UTC