Libyia Raid: US Scores Huge Success
Updated: 1:07pm UK, Monday 07 October 2013
The Americans have scored a major success in capturing one of their most wanted al Qaeda suspects in Libya, but the operation has reminded some in the UK of a time, pre 9/11, when the UK was a haven for foreign Islamists with links to violence.
The Americans got their man, Abu Anas al Libi, in an audacious daylight raid in Tripoli.
Elite forces surrounded his car and dragged him out before, according to the New York Times, flying him out to the US Navy transport ship San Antonio.
Libi is wanted by the Americans on charges of conspiring with Osama bin Laden to attack US forces in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia, and of planning the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people.
In the early 1990s Libi was with bin Laden along with dozens of other al Qaeda members in Sudan.
Colonel Gaddafi of Libya and other leaders asked the Sudanese government to expel them, and Khartoum made it clear to the group that it was time to move on.
Many members went to Afghanistan and Libi may have been among them.
However, by the mid 1990s he was in the UK where, as an enemy of Colonel Gaddafi, he claimed asylum. This was granted by Michael Howard who was then the Home Secretary in Prime Minister John Major's government.
At the time London was home to many radicals who had fled persecution in their own countries. This was only a few years after the UK had supported the Mujahidin in Afghanistan because they fought the Russians.
The French and American security forces were troubled at the presence of so many radicals in the UK, and it was in the mid 1990s that the term Londonistan was first coined.
Both countries gave the British specific examples of how radicals in Britain were in contact with terrorists abroad.
The security services and Scotland Yard were well aware of their presence, but with finite resources, and the IRA to keep an eye on, the authorities tolerated them as long as they did not break the laws in the UK.
Libi left the UK sometime in the late 1990s. It is reported that the police later raided an address at which he had lived and found terrorist literature including a manual on how to conduct terror operations.
The Americans have now captured and killed almost all of the higher echelons of the original Al Qaeda leadership including bin Laden.
Still at large is the new leader, former deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri.
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