US officials said that Ahmed Abu Khattala, the alleged ringleader of Ansar al Sharia's deadly September 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, was captured by US commandos during a raid near Benghazi on June 15. Khalid Hafter, head of the "Operation Dignity" forces, warned foreign militants to leave Libya or be killed there; he also accused Qatar and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group of backing a recent unsuccessful Ansar al Sharia attempt to assassinate him. Hafter said his forces are receiving no foreign funding, but claimed that 80 percent of the Libyan army, navy, and air force is with Operation Dignity. Militants murdered two people in Derna.
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