Libyan Islamist leader Ahmed Abu Khattala denied on Thursday any role in the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans last month. Abu Khattala spoke in an interview with AFP.

A series of U.S. media reports had implicated Abu Khattala as a commander involved in the deadly September 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Abu Khattala, who led the Obeida Ibn Jarrah Brigade during the bloody uprising that toppled and killed dictator Muammar Qaddafi last year, vehemently denied the allegations.