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The Capture of Abu Anas al-Libi
On October 6th, the Department of Defense announced that U.S. forces had captured Abu Anas al-Libi, a senior member of the al Qaeda terrorist organization and a figure on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list, in an early morning raid in Libya. Al-Libi’s capture represents not only an opportunity to prosecute a terrorist whom the United States has sought for over a decade but also a potential source of valuable intelligence about al Qaeda and other terrorist plans and activities.
Q1: Who is al-Libi, and what is he believed to have done?
A1: Al-Libi, a 49-year old Libyan whose given name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al- Ruqai, has a long history of involvement with Islamic militancy. Originally a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a violent Islamist movement that fought to oust Muammar Gaddafi, al-Libi appears to have become involved with al Qaeda in the early 1990s. He reportedly spent time in Sudan while al Qaeda – under the leadership of Osama bin Laden – was headquartered there. Al-Libi also allegedly lived for several years in Afghanistan before fleeing the country in late 2001. He appears to have spent much of the last decade in Iranian custody before returning home to Libya in the midst of the
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Abu Anas al-Libi
Libyan al-Qaeda member (1964–2015)
Not to be confused with Libyan alleged Al-Qaeda member Abd al-Muhsin Al-Libi, known as Abu Anas.
Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i,[name 1] known by the alias Abu Anas al-Libi[2] (AH-boo AH-nahs ahl LEE-bee; Arabic: ابو أنس الليبي Libyan pronunciation:[ˈæbuˈʔænæsəlˈliːbi]; 1964 – 2 January 2015), was a Libyan under indictment[3] in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He worked as a computer specialist for al-Qaeda.[4] He was an ethnic Libyan, born in Tripoli.[5]
His aliases in the indictment are Nazih al Raghie and Anas al Sebai. In the FBI and United States State Department wanted posters,[1][6] another variant of his name is transliterated Nazih Abdul Hamed Al-Raghie.
The indictment accused al-Libi of surveillance of potential British, French, and Israeli targets in Nairobi, in addition to the American embassy in that city, as part of a conspiracy by al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Involvement with al-Qaeda
[edit]Al-Libi was believed to have been tied to al-Qaeda since its 1994 roots in Sudan.[7] In 1995, al-Libi was granted political asylum in the United Kingd