In an amazing look behind the scenes of the United State’s top secret anti-terror operations, the Washington Post’s Adam Goldman has obtained video footage of U.S. forces kidnapping terror suspect Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai in Tripoli, Libya. Ruqai was wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Africa.
In an amazing look behind the scenes of the United State’s top secret anti-terror operations, the Washington Post’s Adam Goldman has obtained video footage of U.S. forces kidnapping terror suspect Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai in Tripoli, Libya. Ruqai was wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Africa.
The dramatic footage, taken from a nearby security camera, shows Ruqai being apprehended while returning from his morning prayers last October. Ruqai’s sedan is parked against the curb on the right side of the street when a white van pulls around the corner to block sedan’s the left side. A white SUV then speeds into frame blocking any hope of escape.
At least 3 men emerge from the white vehicles with guns drawn, removing Ruqai from his car and dragging him into the white van. All three vehicles are then driven from the scene followed by a fourth white car that had been blocking traffic further away.
The entire event took only 45 seconds.
According to Goldman:
Less than two minutes after the Libyan was first cornered, American Special Operations forces sped away with the suspect and his vehicle. Ruqai was taken to a Libyan military base and then to the USS San Antonio, an American warship, waiting off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ruqai’s arrest, carried out in a joint operation by the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force, ended a 13-year hunt for a man once thought to be close to Osama bin Laden. Ruqai is accused of participating in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, which resulted in more than 200 deaths.
The full video and story By Adam Goldman can be seen at the Washington Post: Video shows U.S. abduction of accused al-Qaeda terrorist on trial for embassy bombings
