` ` Three or four members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , '' took part , one source says . Western intelligence services suspect they may have been sent to carry out the attack . AQAP was the first al Qaeda affiliate to comment on the Benghazi attack . They were later transferred to northern Mali , where the trail appears to have gone cold .
` ` Three or four members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , '' took part , one source says . Western intelligence services suspect they may have been sent to carry out the attack . They were later transferred to northern Mali , where the trail appears to have gone cold .