Abu Anas al Libi

Who is Abu Anas al Libi?

Nazih Abdul-Hamed Nabih al-Ruqai'i, known by the alias Abu Anas al-Libi, is a Libyan under indictment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He worked as a computer specialist for al-Qaeda. He is an ethnic Libyan, born in Tripoli.

His aliases in the indictment are Nazih al Raghie and Anas al Sebai. In the FBI and United States State Department wanted posters, another variant of his name is transliterated Nazih Abdul Hamed Al-Raghie.

The indictment accuses al-Libi of surveillance of potential British, French, and Israeli targets in Nairobi, in addition to the American embassy in that city, as part of a conspiracy by al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.