Obama vows to capture Benghazi perpetrators

Justice Department files first criminal charges as part of its investigation into deadly attack

10 August 2013, 1:09 am Edit

President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is vowing to bring to justice those responsible for last year’s deadly assault on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.

Obama says his administration is intent on capturing those who carried out the attack, noting that it took him longer than 11 months to make good on his promise to find Osama bin Laden.

Obama also says his government has a sealed indictment on some suspected of involvement.

Officials said earlier this week the Justice Department filed the first criminal charges as part of its investigation of the September attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Republicans have criticized the administration’s response to the attack and its shifting explanation of what happened.