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Tieng Anh Vui
The BBC's Rana Jawad: "Liby was ambushed, according to his son, by four cars"
US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended the capture of al-Qaeda leader Anas al-Liby on Saturday, who he said was a "legal and appropriate target".
He is a suspected mastermind of the 1998 US embassy attacks in Africa.
His son, Abdullah al-Raghie, said his father had been seized by masked gunmen and that some of them were Libyans.
Mr Kerry's comments come after Libya called on the US to explain the special forces raid on its territory, one of two by US commandos in Africa Saturday.
Mr Kerry said Mr Liby would face justice in a court of law.
Anas al-Liby
- Born 30 March 1964 in Tripoli, Libya. Also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai
- Believed to have joined al-Qaeda in 1990s
- Given political asylum in UK
- Rumoured to have returned to Libya during 2011 civil war
- Charged by New York prosecutors in 2000 with involvement in the 1998 Kenya and Tanzania US embassy bombings
- One of FBI's "most wanted terrorists" with $5m bounty for his capture
"With respect to Abu Anas al-Liby, he is a key al-Qaeda figure, and he is a legal and an appropriate target for the US military," Mr Kerry told reporters on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in Indonesia.
Libyan Prime minister Ali Zeidan's office said he had asked for clarification on the raid and stressed Libya was "keen on prosecuting any Libyan citizen inside Libya".
Citing surveillance camera footage, Mr Liby's son, Abdullah al-Raghie, said his father was seized in Tripoli early on Saturday by masked gunmen armed with pistols, as he was parking outside his house.
He said that those he could see taking his father looked Libyan and spoke a Libyan dialect.
He claims the Libyan government was implicated in his father's disappearance - a claim Tripoli denies.
On Saturday, US commandos also carried out a raid in southern Somalia, but failed to capture their target.
The US Navy Seals' seaborne raid was believed to have focused on a leader of the al-Shabab militant group.
Seal Team Six (ST6)
- Elite force of Seals, based near Virginia Beach
- Selected from all the units, to carry out the most demanding missions
- Usually have five years of experience already
- The unit belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) which is run at a cost of more than $1bn a year
- Involved in Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan in recent years
- Existence shrouded in mystery
- They reportedly train around the clock and can spend 300 days a year away from home
Al-Shabab has said it carried out last month's attack on the Westgate shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, leaving at least 67 people dead.
Anas al-Liby, 49, is believed to have been one of the masterminds behind the 1998 US embassy attacks, which killed more than 220 people in Kenya and Tanzania.
He has been indicted in a New York court in connection with the attacks.
Liby - whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai - has been on the FBI's most wanted list for more than a decade with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head.
His brother, Nabih, on Sunday told reporters his brother was innocent, describing the US operation as an "act of piracy".
Mr Kerry said the operations in Libya and Somalia showed that the US would never stop "in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror".
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