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U.S. Forces Carry Out Dual Raids On Terrorists

U.S. intelligence groups and Special Forces carried out raids Saturday that landed one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.

American troops with FBI and CIA assistance arrested Abu Anas al-Liby on a street in Tripoli, Libya.  Al-Liby had been indicted in 2000 for his part in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.  There was a $5 million bounty on al-Liby; intelligence groups had been searching for the al-Qaeda leader for 15 years.

Libya’s government denied knowledge of the operation and citizens were very upset that a foreign military conducted an operation on their soil.

In Somalia, a Navy SEAL team exchanged gunfire at the home of a major leader of the al-Shabab terrorist group.  The raid was in response to the al-Qaeda related terrorist group’s raid on a Nairobi shopping mall that killed more than 60 people.

Unfortunately, the SEAL team had to withdraw from the fight before confirming the senior leader of al-Shabab was killed in the assault.

CIA Stops New “Underwear Bomb” Plot By Al Qaeda

US Intelligence officials have reported the stopping of a new “underwear bomb” plot by Al Qaeda’s Yemeni operatives similar to the failed 2009 Christmas Day plot.

The FBI is studying the bomb, allegedly an upgraded version of the underwear bomb used in 2009, after being seized in an unnamed middle eastern country. The plot was broken up in the early stages between the making of the bomb and before the public was put at any risk.  Continue reading →