An elite US commando unit launched a daring raid into Libya on Saturday — and captured an al Qaeda leader on the lam since 1988.
Anas al-Liby had been on the FBI’s most wanted list since the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
The US had put a $5 million price on his head. It was not immediately known if anyone was in line to collect the reward.
Al-Liby was parking his car early in the day outside his home in an upscale Tripoli neighborhood after dawn prayers, when three cars drove up, his brother said.
The men inside the vehicles surrounded al-Liby, smashed his car’s windows and seized his gun before he could use it, according to witnesses.
“As the result of the US counter-terrorism operation, Abu Anas al-Liby is currently lawfully detained by the US military in a location outside of Libya,” said Pentagon spokesman George Little.
Two Islamic militia sources confirmed the capture.