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Suspected Plotter of U.S. Embassy Attacks Abu Anas Al-Libi Dies in New York
NBC ^ | 1/3/15 | Jonathan Dienst and Robert Windrem

Posted on 01/03/2015 5:40:45 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

A one-time associate of Osama Bin Laden died in New York on Friday while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, was captured in Libya by U.S. commandos in Oct. 2013 and brought to New York where he was due to stand trial. He had been wanted for more than a decade and there was a $5 million reward for his arrest. Al-Libi had pleaded not guilty.

The al Qaeda terror suspect has been in poor health and suffered liver disease as a result of hepatitis C, according to published reports.

In a court filing, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said that al-Libi was taken from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to a New York hospital on Wednesday "due to sudden complications arising out of his long-standing medical problems."

Bharara added that al-Libi's condition "deteriorated rapidly" and he died on Friday.

"We understand that, in addition to his counsel, an imam was with al-Libi at the hospital and that appropriate arrangements are being made with his family," Bharara wrote.

A spokesman for Bharara declined comment. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Al-Libi's attorney Bernard Kleinman had recently said his client's health was deteriorating. Kleinman did not immediately return a call for comment early Saturday.

Al-Libi's wife, Um Abdullah, told The Associated Press that being his experience only worsened his ailments, including hepatitis C, leading to his death. "I accuse the American government of kidnapping, mistreating, and killing an innocent man. He did nothing," Abdullah said.

Abdullah said her husband underwent liver surgery three weeks ago, went into a coma and was moved prematurely back to prison where he suffered complications.

His wife said that she spoke to al-Libi last time from prison on Thursday. "His voice was weak and he was in a bad condition," she added.

Al-Libi had argued in court that he was illegally kidnapped and interrogated for seven days aboard a Navy ship after members of an Army Delta Force swooped into his property in Tripoli and pulled him from his car.


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1 posted on 01/03/2015 5:40:45 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

DeBlah, Blah is going to investigate the treatment of this poor, poor, man.


2 posted on 01/03/2015 5:46:53 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Straight Vermonter

Hey, woman; God’s judgement can be harsh.


3 posted on 01/03/2015 5:47:29 AM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

To make up for the way he was treated by the Delta Force, I recommend a taxpayer-paid, bacon-wrapped send off into the great beyond for this poor, innocent victim.


4 posted on 01/03/2015 5:47:49 AM PST by TheGipperWasRight
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To: Straight Vermonter

De Blasio will go to his funeral.


5 posted on 01/03/2015 5:47:51 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: Straight Vermonter

May all the guilty SOB’s suffer the same fate before obama lets em go.....


6 posted on 01/03/2015 5:48:43 AM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Straight Vermonter
For those who do not recall, those were particularly diabolical attacks. A small charge was set off in the streets, and people eventually went to the windows to see what was going on. Then the big bombs went off, blowing in the windows and shredding people.

Both attacks followed the same M.O.

This world is a better place without someone who would do such a thing.

7 posted on 01/03/2015 5:51:33 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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He was just turning his life around, was applying to college, was a good, boy, did nothing wrong, and was an aspiring rapper...Um Abdallah

ML/LTOS

8 posted on 01/03/2015 5:53:12 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

God hates Muslims.


9 posted on 01/03/2015 5:58:37 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Straight Vermonter

Whoops! Knife must have slipped during surgery.


10 posted on 01/03/2015 5:58:52 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Straight Vermonter

Satan called him back home.


11 posted on 01/03/2015 6:01:21 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Some good news for the first weekend of the New Year !

             

12 posted on 01/03/2015 6:10:14 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Straight Vermonter
must've been getting ready to sing.

Abu Anas? Really?

13 posted on 01/03/2015 6:14:32 AM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Good.

Who died him? ;-)


14 posted on 01/03/2015 6:28:29 AM PST by lowbridge
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“We understand that, in addition to his counsel, an imam was with al-Libi at the hospital and that appropriate arrangements are being made”

Hopefully to a north carolina pig farm as sty feed.

15 posted on 01/03/2015 6:58:29 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Water Boarding ......??


16 posted on 01/03/2015 7:04:31 AM PST by njslim
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To: Straight Vermonter

This Islamonazi gets expensive end-of-life care that Americans are denied these days.


17 posted on 01/03/2015 7:13:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: TheGipperWasRight; GeronL

Obama will pay to give this man a respectful muslim funeral just as he did for the supposedly not-really-muslim Osama Bin Laden, just you wait and see.

And if anyone asks, why would a foreign terrorist be buried in America even if family abroad want the corpse, look at what was done with the Boston bomber’s body.


18 posted on 01/03/2015 7:16:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Gushy NYT story to come in 3...2...1...


19 posted on 01/03/2015 7:41:20 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: TheGipperWasRight

There is an opportunity here. Instead of sending flowers, send bacon.


20 posted on 01/03/2015 7:42:33 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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