US Captures Wanted Libyan Al Qaeda Leader US forces have captured an al Qaeda leader in Libya linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in east Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade. A US official identified the al Qaeda leader as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al Libi. His capture represents a significant blow to what remains of the core al Qaeda organisation once led by Osama bin Laden. Family members said gunmen in a three-car convoy seized al Libi outside his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Al Libi is believed to have returned to Libya during the 2011 civil war that led to the ouster and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. His brother, Nabih, said the 49-year-old was parking outside his house early Saturday after dawn prayers, when three vehicles encircled his vehicle. The gunmen smashed his car's window and seized his gun before grabbing him and fleeing. One of the 1998 attacks flattened the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya The brother said al Libi's wife saw the kidnapping from her window and described the abductors as foreign-looking armed "commandos." The US official said there were no US casualties in the operation. Al-Libi is on the FBI's most-wanted list with a $5m (£3.1m) bounty on his head. He was indicted by a federal court in the Southern District of New York for his alleged role in the bombings of the US Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998, that killed more than 250 people. Al-Libi was believed to be a computer specialist with al Qaeda. He studied electronic and nuclear engineering, graduating from Tripoli University, and was an anti-Gaddafi. He is believed to have spent time in Sudan, where Osama bin Laden was based in the early 1990s. After bin Laden was forced to leave Sudan, al Libi turned up in Britain in 1995 where he was granted political asylum under unclear circumstances and lived in Manchester. He was arrested by Scotland Yard in 1999, but released because of lack of evidence and later fled Britain. His name was included on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list that was introduced shortly after the September 11 attacks.