CAIRO (AP) – Abu Anas al-Libi, a man accused by federal prosecutors of being an al-Qaida member involved in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, died of complication from liver surgery, his wife said Saturday. He was 49.
U.S. forces raided Libya in 2013 and seized him in the streets of the capital, Tripoli, bringing him back to America to stand trial in New York. On Saturday, his wife, Um Abdullah, told The Associated Press that the experience only worsened his ailments, including hepatitis C, leading to his death.
“I accuse the American government of kidnapping, mistreating, and killing an innocent man. He did nothing,” Abullah said.
Federal authorities had no immediate comment. Al-Libi’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
Al-Libi, also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, was indicted more than a decade ago in U.S. federal court of being involved in the twin 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.