Chris Stephen, Abdalle Ahmed, and David Smith
London Guardian
October 7, 2013
Libya has demanded an explanation for the “kidnapping” of one of its
citizens by American special forces, hours after a separate US military
raid on a terrorist target in Somalia ended in apparent failure and
retreat.
In Tripoli the US army’s Delta force seized alleged al-Qaida leader
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Abu Anas al-Liby and
wanted for the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
that killed more than 220 people.
The New York Times reported that Liby was being held in military
custody and interrogated on board a navy ship, the USS Antonio, in the
Mediterranean.
But US navy Seals suffered a major setback when they launched an
amphibious assault to capture an Islamist militant leader said to be
Ahmed Godane, described as Africa’s most wanted man and the architect of
last month’s attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya. The elite
Seals were beaten back by heavy fire and apparently abandoned equipment
that the Somali militants photographed and posted on the internet.
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