WASHINGTON: US officials say Abu Anas al-Libi, the al-Qaeda leader captured earlier this month in Libya, has been transferred to federal custody in New York.
New York US Attorney Preet Bharara said al-Libi, indicted more than decade ago by US authorities in connection with the 1998 US embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday after being detained and interrogated on a US warship.
Al-Libi was captured in a US raid in Libya on October 5 and had been held on the USS San Antonio.
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