Ahmed Abu Khatallah has been an enigma since his name first emerged as a possible leader of the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans. He didn't hide in the months after the September 11, 2012, assault on a U.S. diplomatic compound, instead giving media interviews in public, including one with CNN's Arwa Damon. "No problem," he replied in 2013 when Damon asked if he would be willing to meet with U.S. investigators presumably searching for him. "But not as an interrogation," he added, suggesting instead "a conversation, like the one we are having with you now." It didn't work out that way.
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Ahmed Abu Khatallah denied to CNN last year that he led the Benghazi attack
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He was imprisoned under Moammar Gadhafi, then formed an Islamist militia
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Don't fear al Qaeda, he told CNN's Arwa Damon
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He is being brought to the United States to face charges
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