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Sudan turns over Al Qaida expert on 'most dangerous list'

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Tuesday, March 19, 2002

LONDON Ñ A computer expert for Osama Bin Laden has been captured in Sudan.

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Abu Anas Al Liby

Authorities have handed over Abu Anas Al Liby, who appears on a U.S. list of the most dangerous insurgents in the world.

Al Liby has been sought by Washington for more than two years and is said to be a senior member of Al Qaida. He is suspected of planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 224 people were killed.

Described as a computer expert for Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden, Al Liby was arrested last month in Sudan after authorities there launched a search for Al Qaida insurgents in wake of the Sept. 11 suicide bombings in New York and Washington.

Western diplomatic sources said the regime of Sudanese President Omar Bashir has provided both Egypt and the United States with Al Qaida suspects as well as information from government intelligence files in Khartoum. Up to 50 Islamic insurgents and suspected members of the Jihad were said to have been extradited by Sudan to Egypt over the last six months.

The London-based Sunday Times and A-Sharq Al Awsat first reported that Al Liby was one of nine Al Qaida suspects detained by Khartoum and relayed to the United States.

Al Liby, 37, lived in the British city of Manchester until 2000 when he fled for Sudan. Neither Britain nor the United States has announced Al Liby's capture. Sudan denied that it had arrested Al Liby.

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