US Special Forces Target Islamists In Somalia And Libya

US Forces Conduct Two Major Anti-Terrorist Operations in Africa -- Voice of America

WASHINGTON — U.S. special forces have launched major anti-terror operations in Libya and Somalia.

Defense Department spokesman George Little, in a written statement, confirmed U.S. forces have captured Abu Anas el-Liby, an al-Qaida leader indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salam, Tanzania.

The attacks 15 years ago killed more than 200 people and injured thousands.

Little said Abu Anas is currently detained by the U.S. military in what he described only as a secure location outside Libya.

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