Who Is The Al Qaeda Leader Captured In Libya

Manchester Link Of al-Qaeda Commander Captured In Daring US Delta Forces raid As It Emerges Jihadist Gave Scotland Yard the slip 13 Years Ago After Being Given Asylum In The UK -- Daily Mail

* Abu Anas al-Liby wanted for plotting attacks on US embassies in 1998
* But in 1999 he was living in Manchester as a student after seeking asylum
* A year later he was arrested as a terror suspect in the UK but later freed
* Detectives then raided his home and found a terror manual, but he was gone
* Theresa May is be questioned over why he was given asylum in Britain
* a-Liby has been on FBI's most-wanted list since it was introduced in 2001
* He has been seized from Tripoli home in raid by elite US troops

One of the world’s most wanted terrorists captured in Libya by elite US troops was given political asylum in Britain but fled two years later when it was discovered he was planning Jihad from his Manchester flat, it emerged today.

Al Qaeda commander Abu Anas al-Liby was wanted for plotting the 1998 US embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 220, yet within a year he was living as a student in Moss Side.

The extremist, who had a £3million US bounty on his head, was seized at his home in Tripoli after dawn prayers by the US Army’s Delta Force, 13 years after British police let him slip through their fingers.

It was revealed today that he had been arrested as a terror suspect in the UK in 1999.

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