Al-Qaeda's Strategy Evolves in Libya - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Anas El Gomati

Anas El Gomati

Oct 14, 2013

Protesters burn a replica of the U.S. flag during a demonstration against the capture of Nazih al-Ragye, in Benghazi October 7, 2013. An elite U.S. interrogation team is questioning the senior al Qaeda figure, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, who was seized by special operations forces in Libya and then whisked onto a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTX14315 — Protesters burn a replica of the US flag during a demonstration against the capture of alleged al-Qaeda senior operative Abu Anas al-Libi, in Benghazi, October 7, 2013. — REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Men grieve over a grave at the funerals for those killed in Saturday's clashes at the Libya Shield brigade headquarters, in Benghazi June 9, 2013. Libya's army will take control of a militia's bases in the eastern city of Benghazi after clashes in which 31 people were killed, an army spokesman said on Sunday. Fighting broke out on Saturday at the headquarters of the Libya Shield brigade when protesters demanded the disbanding of the militias, whose continued existence nearly two years after the fall of Muam

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Anas El Gomati

Protesters take part in a demonstration against the capture of Nazih al-Ragye, in Benghazi October 7, 2013. An elite U.S. interrogation team is questioning the senior al Qaeda figure, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, who was seized by special operations forces in Libya and then whisked onto a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1430J

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Veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar speaks in this undated still image taken from a video released by Sahara Media on January 21, 2013. Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility in the name of al Qaeda for the Algerian hostage-taking, and his Mulathameen Brigade warned it would carry out further attacks on foreign interests unless the fighting in Mali stopped Mauritanian news website Sahara Media said on January 20. REUTERS/Sahara Media via Reuters TV (ALGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DA

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