This past Saturday, the Navy SEALs undertook a mission to capture one of the main al-Shabab militants on the coast of Somalia. The mission was a response to the attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi which killed 67 people. It was the first mission that was performed in Somalia since the shooting of a senior al-Qaeda figure, Saleh Ali Saleh Nehban, in 2009. This recent mission was unsuccessful, but there was success in Libya around the same time as this. U.S. captured and took into custody Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, a main al-Qaeda figure who was suspected in the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. Ruqai was captured in Tripoli when three cars caught up to his and the U.S. soldiers seized him. The Libyan government was surprised at this, for they had not gotten notice ahead of time. They claimed that Ruqai was a Lybian citizen and should be tried for his crimes on Libyan soil. Their is a good relationship between the U.S. and Lybian government though, so there shouldn't be a problem in determining where Ruqai, one of the FBI's 5 Most-Wanted, is tried for the crimes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-navy-seals-raid-al-shabab-leaders-somalia-home-in-response-to-nairobi-attack/2013/10/05/78f135dc-2e0c-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story_2.html
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