USG Captures Abu Anas el-Liby in Tripoli

Wells Bennett
Saturday, October 5, 2013, 6:52 PM
From The New York Times comes the second of the day's two breaking stories regarding recent and quite significant counterterrorism operations by the United States.
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From The New York Times comes the second of the day's two breaking stories regarding recent and quite significant counterterrorism operations by the United States.  David Kirkpatrick's article begins:

CAIRO — United States forces captured a leader of Al Qaeda indicted in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, ending a 15-year manhunt by seizing him in broad daylight near the Libyan capital, American officials said.

The suspect, born Nazih Abd al Hamid al-Ruqhay and known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas el-Liby, has been high on the list of the United States government’s most-wanted fugitives since at least 2000, when a New York court indicted him for his part in planning the embassy attacks. The F.B.I. had offered a bounty of up to $5 million for information leading to his capture.

Abu Anas was captured alive near Tripoli in a joint operation by the United States military, the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., and was in American custody, a United States official said.

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Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.

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