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| Libya terror suspect Anas al-Liby dies before US trial | Libya terror suspect Anas al-Liby dies before US trial |
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| An alleged al-Qaeda leader has died just days before going on trial in New York over the 1998 US embassy attacks in Africa. | |
| Abu Anas al-Liby, 50, died in hospital on Friday, his wife and lawyers say. He is reported to have had liver cancer. | |
| Mr Liby was seized in a US raid in Tripoli in October 2013. | Mr Liby was seized in a US raid in Tripoli in October 2013. |
| He was to stand trial on 12 January over the 1998 embassy attacks, which killed more than 220 people in Kenya and Tanzania. | |
| Mr Liby, whose real name was Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, previously pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. | Mr Liby, whose real name was Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, previously pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges. |
| His wife, Um Abdullah, accused the US government on Saturday of "kidnapping, mistreating and killing an innocent man," according to the Associated Press news agency. | His wife, Um Abdullah, accused the US government on Saturday of "kidnapping, mistreating and killing an innocent man," according to the Associated Press news agency. |
| She said her husband died from complications following liver surgery, AP reports. | |
| When he was seized in 2013, Mr Liby had been on the FBI's most wanted list for more than a decade, with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head. He had been indicted by a New York grand jury in 2000. | When he was seized in 2013, Mr Liby had been on the FBI's most wanted list for more than a decade, with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head. He had been indicted by a New York grand jury in 2000. |
| US Secretary of State John Kerry was forced to defend the capture after Libya called on the US to explain the raid on its territory. | US Secretary of State John Kerry was forced to defend the capture after Libya called on the US to explain the raid on its territory. |