Anas al-Liby

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i alias Anas al-Liby
Senior al-Qaeda suspect
Born	March 30, 1964 (1964-03-30) Tripoli, Libya

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i alias Anas al-Liby (أنس الليبي) (born March 30, 1964 or May 14, 1964 ), a Libyan, is under indictment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He worked as a computer specialist for al-Qaeda.

His aliases in the indictment are Nazih al Raghie and Anas al Sebai. In the FBI and State Department wanted posters about this individual, another variant of his name is transliterated Nazih Abdul Hamed Al-Raghie.

The indictment accuses al-Liby of surveillance of potential British, French, and Israeli targets in Nairobi, in addition to the American embassy in that city, as part of a conspiracy by al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Life

Believed to have been tied to al-Qaeda since its 1994 roots in the Sudan, al-Liby had lived in the United Kingdom, where he was granted political asylum, and was later believed to have fled to Afghanistan to avoid prosecution for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

He speaks Arabic and English. Because he was tall and bore a passing resemblance to Osama bin Laden, he was often used as a decoy when Bin Laden traveled.

In January 2002, news reports stated that al-Liby had been captured by American forces in Afghanistan. Following this, in March 2002 news reports stated that al-Liby had been arrested by the Sudanese government and was being held in a prison in Khartoum. However U.S. officials soon denied those reports and al-Liby is still being sought.

Al-Liby has been on the USA's list of Most Wanted Terrorists since its inception on October 10, 2001. The United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, is offering up to US$5,000,000 (formerly $25,000,000) for information about the location of Anas al-Liby.

“	Mr. Williams' allegations about McMaster [are] on par a par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories...that notion that because there are people on faculty from Egypt that McMaster is then a haven for terrorism is not only logically offensive, it smack of racism.	”
—Lawyer Peter Downard

In October, FBI consultant Paul Williams wrote a book Dunces of Doomsday in which he claimed that Amer el-Maati, Jaber A. Elbaneh and al-Liby had all been seen around Hamilton, Ontario the previous year, and that Shukrijumah had been seen at McMaster University where he "wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the reation of radiological bombs". He was subsequently sued by the University for libel, as there had been no evidence to suggest any part of his story was true. The publisher later apologised for allowing Williams to print statements which "were without basis in fact".

A February 2007 Human Rights Watch document claims that al-Liby and others "may have once been held" in secret detention by the CIA, but the document includes no evidence or testimony to support that assertion.

On June 6, 2007, al-Liby was listed as a possible CIA "Secret Prisoner" by Amnesty International, without giving any reason or evidence, and despite the fact he remains on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list as of the published date (June 6, 2007).

Aliases

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i	نزيه عبد الحمد نبيه الرقيعي	The surname is spelled لراجعي in the UN list.
Anas al-Liby	أنس الليبي
Abu Anas al-Liby	أبو أنس الليبي	Some Arabic press reports call him by this name.
Anas al-Sebai	أنس السباعي
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Raghie	نزيه عبد الحمد الراغي