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Monday, October 7, 2013
Over the weekend US commandos launched daring twin raids in Libya and Somalia capturing a senior al Qaeda official who allegedly planned the 1998 embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, the Pentagon said.
In Libya on October 5 Anas al Libi, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai’I, was seized, the Pentagon said. He has been wanted for more than a decade by the US and had a $5 million reward on his head.
In a separate raid in the Somalia town of Barawe, US commandos targeted a “high value” target from the al Qaeda-linked al Shabab movement, but spokesman George Little said the Pentagon was “not prepared to provide additional detail at this time.” It was revealed that the revealed that the raid was carried out by members of SEAL Team Six according to the Associated Press.
Secretary of State John Kerry said October 6 that the raids sent the message that terrorists “can run but they can’t hide.”
“I want to thank and congratulate the quality and courage of those young Americans who took part in [the] operations,” he told reporters in Indonesia where he was traveling. “We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror.”
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