Pentagon confirms U.S. troops snatched wanted al Qaida leader from streets of Libyan capital

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Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the U.S. for more than a decade

Pentagon confirms U.S. troops snatched wanted al Qaida leader from streets of Libyan capital
Published: October 5, 2013 Updated 9 hours ag0
By James Rosen — McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — U.S. special forces in Libya on Saturday captured a senior al Qaida leader who’d been sought since 1998 for involvement in the coordinated bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Pentagon press secretary George Little confirmed late Saturday that Nazih Abdul-Hamed al Ruqai, known by his alias as Abu Anas al Libi, was being held by "the U.S. military in a secure location outside of Libya."

Little said only that al Libi’s capture had been "the result of a U.S. counter-terrorism operation," but al Libi’s relatives in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, told reporters that gunmen in a three-car convoy seized him outside his home Saturday in an early-morning raid.

Little provided no details of what U.S. authorities planned to do with al Libi, who is under U.S. federal indictment for his alleged role in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 212 people, among them two CIA employees and 10 other Americans.


on edit: add Somalia to the list --> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/us-special-forces-libya-somalia