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.
