US President Obama has announced further for the future of US special operations against terrorists. The recent actions he defended against criticism from Libya. The government in Tripoli called for the immediate extradition of al-Libi Qaeda commander.

US President Barack Obama has defended diejüngsten American special forces operations against terrorists in Libya and Somalia. He also made ​​it clear that in future such military operations are possible – as long as there are threats against the United States. “Where there are active terrorist plots and active networks, we will take action against them,” Obama said on Tuesday (local time) with a view to terrorists and other radical forces that pose a threat to the United States.

US elite units had taken over the weekend in Tripoli, the long-sought as a top terrorist Abu Anas al-Libi caught. A similar action against an alleged top terror planners of the Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia failed.

The Libyan government is upset about the arrest Libis. Libya’s government expressed only timid protest, now Tripoli intensifies the tone towards Washington. Prime Minister Ali Seidan insists that the United States extradite al-Qaida commander immediately. A special unit of the U.S. Army had the 49-year-old arrested on Saturday in his hometown of Tripoli.

The Libyan prime minister condemned the action command of the Americans as kidnapping and insisted again Tuesday that he was not privy to the actions of the United States. Seidan demanded to provide Libi, the Libyan justice. “We insist that Libyan nationals in Libya are brought to justice, and Libya will not extradite its citizens for processes in other countries.”

The Libyan Congress joined the appeal and ordered the U.S. action as “striking violation of the sovereignty” of the country. The Libyan government and Libis family must be allowed to make contact with the detainees. Libi also need access to a lawyer, it said in a statement.

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Currently, the U.S. military keeps the al-Qaida firmly on the Navy ship USS “San Antonio” in the Mediterranean. Then it should be brought to New York, where it awaits a trial in a U.S. federal court.

The secret hope for from the man about the inner workings of the terrorist organization. Libi had since the early nineties to the circle of closest associates of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The U.S. accuses Libi prior involvement in the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 with more than 200 dead.

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