The US military was holding and secretly interrogating an alleged Al-Qaeda operative Monday, after covert weekend raids on Libya and Somalia which also targeted an elusive Shebab commander.
Abu Anas al-Libi was captured by special forces in Tripoli on Saturday and is now "lawfully detained by the United States military in a secure location outside of Libya," a senior US official said.
Libi, who was on the FBI's most wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head for his alleged role in the 1998 twin bombings of US embassies in East Africa, has been taken to a US Navy warship in the region, an official told AFP.
The New York Times said he was on board the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport currently deployed in the Mediterranean.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, revealed that US Navy SEALs had been hunting a top commander of Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebel group in a separate weekend raid on the southern Somali port of Barawe.
Abu Anas al-Libi was captured by special forces in Tripoli on Saturday and is now "lawfully detained by the United States military in a secure location outside of Libya," a senior US official said.
Libi, who was on the FBI's most wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head for his alleged role in the 1998 twin bombings of US embassies in East Africa, has been taken to a US Navy warship in the region, an official told AFP.
The New York Times said he was on board the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport currently deployed in the Mediterranean.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, revealed that US Navy SEALs had been hunting a top commander of Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebel group in a separate weekend raid on the southern Somali port of Barawe.
