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Libya summons US envoy over raid to capture al-Liby | Libya summons US envoy over raid to capture al-Liby |
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Libya summoned the US ambassador to the country for questioning on Monday over the weekend capture of a suspected al-Qaeda leader on Libyan territory. | Libya summoned the US ambassador to the country for questioning on Monday over the weekend capture of a suspected al-Qaeda leader on Libyan territory. |
Anas al-Liby, a suspect in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was seized in the capital, Tripoli, on Saturday. | |
Libya's minister of justice wanted "a number of explanations concerning the case", a statement said. | Libya's minister of justice wanted "a number of explanations concerning the case", a statement said. |
The US has said Mr Liby was "a legal and an appropriate target". | |
Mr Liby's son, Abdullah al-Raghie, has said his father was seized by masked gunmen early on Saturday morning and that some of them were Libyans. | |
He believes the Libyan government was implicated in his father's disappearance - a claim Tripoli denies. | |
Libya's justice minister Salah al-Marghani summoned US ambassador Deborah Jones for an audience on Monday morning, a foreign ministry statement said. | |
Anas al-Liby - real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai - is believed to have been one of the masterminds behind the 1998 US embassy attacks, which killed more than 220 people in Kenya and Tanzania. | |
The 49-year-old has been indicted in a New York court in connection with the attacks. | |
He has been on the FBI's most wanted list for more than a decade with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head. | He has been on the FBI's most wanted list for more than a decade with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head. |
Defending the capture, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Mr al-Liby would face justice in a court of law. | |