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The National
April 21, 2018
Salman Abedi, 22, who died after triggering the explosion at a crowded arena in May last year, knew the family of Anas Al Liby who was accused by the US of being one of the masterminds behind the bombing of embassies in east Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people, according to Abedi's cousin. Al LibyÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 5, 2018
In the 1990s LIFG were primarily anti-Gaddafi activists, though one of their members, Anas Al-Liby, scouted targets for al-Qaeda in what became the embassy bombings plot. In 1996 an MI6 intelligence officer codenamed Tunworth was a member of LIFG, and through him British intelligence paid the groupÃâà...
Decider
March 6, 2018
O'Neill, Soufan, and Chief Inspector James all head to a home in London where Anas Al-Liby, one of the co-perpetrators of the Embassy bombings. While they are forced to let him go due to not finding any evidence in his home (as a computer specialist for al-Qaeda, he wisely knew to wipe his system priorÃâà...
BBC News
January 3, 2015
An alleged al-Qaeda leader has died just days before going on trial in New York over the 1998 US embassy attacks in Africa. Abu Anas al-Liby, 50, died in hospital on Friday, his wife and lawyers say. He is reported to have had liver cancer. Mr Liby was seized in a US raid in Tripoli in October 2013. He wasÃâà...
CNN
October 15, 2013
An alleged al Qaeda operative accused of playing a role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania pleaded not guilty Tuesday to terrorism charges brought against him in federal court in New York. As Abu Anas al Libi walked into court to face the charges, his hands were shackled, hisÃâà...
BBC News
October 6, 2013
Anas al-Liby was accused by the US of being one of the masterminds behind the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people. He was one of several people indicted by a New York grand jury in 2000, and was later placed on the FBI's list of "most wanted terrorists". But it wasÃâà...
Het Laatste Nieuws
December 31, 1999
Volgens Forjani radicaliseerde Abedi door dichte contacten met de familie van een Al Qaida-terrorist, Anas al-Liby. Al-Liby had een nauwe band met Osama bin Laden en werd gezocht door de FBI. Al-Liby en zijn familie woonden ooit in Manchester, weet Forjani. “Ik herinner me hen nog van toen ik kleinÃâà...
Express.co.uk
December 31, 1999
... and smoke cannabis, yet his family was grounded in the Sala brand of puritanical Islam. Once, at Manchester College, he punched a girl in the head after arguing with her about her skirt being too short. Mr Forjani claims Abedi was radicalised through the family of an Al Qaeda terrorist called Anas Al Liby.
