U.S. Captures Qaeda Leader Linked to 1998 Bombings
Source: NYT
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 governments 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.
His capture was the latest grave blow to what remains of the original Qaeda organization after a 12-year-old American campaign to capture or kill its leadership, including the killing two years ago of its founder, Osama Bin Laden, in a compound in Pakistan.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/world/africa/Al-Qaeda-Suspect-Wanted-in-US-Said-to-Be-Taken-in-Libya.html
McCain and Graham will appear on the Sunday talk shows..."What about Benghazi!?!?!?!?!?"
Kingofalldems
(38,489 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)on Sunday's talk shows. You just wait and see! The morons
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)that Benghazi was a long con to lure him out of hiding - AND IT WORKED !
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)that is to say, one of the two attacks that occurred that night was an attack on a CIA base of operations, and the two ex special forces men who were killed were contractors working for the CIA.
It seems likely that their mission might have been capturing this guy.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,591 posts)Cha
(297,744 posts)Yes, they will... corp mediawhore Inc always has them at the ready for just such a development.
Will they have any Dems? No.
trumpetero
(15 posts)Will the msm give him credit?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)rollin74
(1,990 posts)Cal33
(7,018 posts)jessie04
(1,528 posts)nice and quiet for the rest of his life.
7962
(11,841 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)If they could remember who Mitt Romney is
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)same should happen to all these war criminals piling up in our political world.
You never know when some Country will seize you in broad daylight.