Libya’s PM demands explanation for US raid in Tripoli

Pentagon says US forces seized Libyan man wanted for bombing embassies 15 years ago

A US embassy official secures the area around the embassy building after a powerful bomb blast in Nairobi in this photo taken in 1998. Senior al Qaeda figure Anas al-Liby, indicted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa, was captured in Libya by a US team and is in American custody, officials said.

   

Libya’s prime minister Ali Zeidan today asked US authorities to explain a military raid in Tripoli to capture a Libyan man wanted for bombing US embassies in Africa 15 years ago, his office said.

Nazih al-Ragye, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, was seized by US forces in the Libyan capital yesterday, the Pentagon said.

“The Libyan government is following the news of the kidnapping of a Libyan citizen who is wanted by US authorities,” Mr Zeidan’s office said in a statement. “The Libyan government has contacted to US authorities to ask them to provide an explanation.”