Anas Al-Liby
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Anas Al-Liby
Anas Al-Liby (Arabic: أنس الليبي) (born March 30, 1964 or May 14, 1964) is a Libyan Al-Qaeda operative, who fled Libya because of Muammar al-Qaddafi, and is wanted for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is wanted for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, to murder, to destroy buildings and property of the United States, and to destroy the national defense utilities of the United States.
Al-Liby had lived in the United Kingdom, where he was granted political asylum, and was later believed to have fled to Afghanistan to avoid prosecution for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.
Al-Liby has used the aliases Anas Al-Sabai, Anas Al-Libi, Nazih Al-Raghie and Nazih Abdul Hamed Al-Raghie. He speaks Arabic and English.
The U.S. Rewards for Justice program of the State Department has offered up to $5,000,000 (in the past also reported as $25,000,000) as a reward for his capture [1] (http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Al_Liby).
In March 2002 news reports stated that al-Liby had been arrested by the Sudanese government and was being held in a prison in Khartoum [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1881397.stm). However U.S. officials soon denied the reports [3] (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001796) and al-Liby is still on the FBI's list of the most wanted terrorists (see external link).