Sudan turns over Al Qaida expert on 'most dangerous list'
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SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
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
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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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