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Home Secretary Theresa May will be questioned by MPs as to why an al-Qaeda terror suspect captured in Libya was previously given asylum in Britain.
Anas al-Liby, who was seized by US special forces in Tripoli on Saturday, is accused of helping plan attacks on US embassies in 1998.
It is thought he lived in Manchester after being granted political asylum.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said the committee would raise the matter with Mrs May.
The home secretary is due to be questioned by the Home Affairs Select Committee on 15 October.
Mr Liby, also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, is accused of helping to plan twin attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed 224 people in 1998.
Some reports suggest he was arrested by British police in the year after the embassy bombing. But he appears to have either fled the country or been released for lack of evidence.
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
Mr Vaz said: "This case raises serious questions about the motives behind asylum and national security decisions in the UK.
"It is not the first time that someone, who has been brought to the attention of the authorities and released, has gone on to be linked to further terrorist activity."
Noman Benotman, who is now president of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremist thinktank, got to know Mr Liby when he was commander of Islamist organisation the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
He told the BBC's Newshour: "He's smart. He's not like the usual terrorist or mad people we are dealing with now.
"He's from the old generation, he graduated from the university, he as a degree in IT from Tripoli University."
US commandos also carried out an successful raid in southern Somalia on Saturday, targeting a leader of the al-Shabab group blamed for the deadly attack on a shopping centre in neighbouring Kenya.
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