(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Libya's Tobruk-based parliament on Tuesday announced plans to form a committee to investigate the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012.
"During its Tuesday session, the [Tobruk-based] Libyan parliament formed a committee tasked with investigating the death [in 2012] of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi," committee chairman Tarek al-Jaroushi told The Anadolu Agency.
Al-Jaroushi also currently chairs the Tobruk-based assembly's defense and national security committee.
"Starting Wednesday, the committee will send letters to Benghazi's security directorate € and the rest of the city's security bodies € to aid in the investigation," al-Jaroushi told AA.
"The committee will also send letters to the U.S Congress and Central Intelligence Agency to request any information they have on the incident," al-Jaroushi said, stressing that the committee would operate independently.
"Ambiguity surrounding the case is beginning to clear up," the MP added, noting that the Libyan authorities "already possess information that will help with the arrest of the perpetrators and clarify the circumstances of the incident."
Al-Jaroushi went on to note that a parliamentary delegation would visit Washington in upcoming days, adding that the investigation into Stevens' death would be one of the topics on the agenda.
The 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi led to the deaths of four Americans, including Stevens and State Department official Sean Smith. Two CIA contractors € Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty € were both killed in a neighboring CIA annex.
Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a key suspect in the attack, was arrested in June 2014 by U.S. forces in Libya and handed over to a federal court in Washington.
The U.S. State Department designated Abu Khatallah a global terrorist on Jan. 10, 2014, saying he was a "senior leader" of the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Sharia, a militant group linked to attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi.
On June 29, 2014, Abu Khatallah appeared before a U.S. court and pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012.
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