Kerry: The United States will continue anti -terrorist operations in Africa

The operations of American special forces in Africa are a signal to terrorists that the United States will not forget about attacks. According to RIA Novosti, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, commenting on the special operation on the eve of Libya and Somali

"The United States will not stop in their desire to bring to justice those who are involved in terrorist attacks," Kerry said. According to him, "terrorists can run away, but will not be able to hide."

On Saturday, the American military captured an influential member of the Al-Qaida International Terrorist Organization during an operation near the capital of Libya Tripoli. The detained terrorist is known as Anas al-Libi (real name is Nazikh Abd al-Hamid Ar-Rukhai). The United States was looking for him for more than ten years and offered a reward of $ 5 million for his capture. According to media reports, it was a joint operation of the US military, the CIA and the FBI.

Al-Libi has been in Al-Qaeda at least since 1994 and was a confidant of the former leader of the organization Osama Ben Laden. It is believed that it was he who was one of the organizers of the attack on the US Embassy in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, whose victims were 12 Americans and more than 220 Kenyans.

It was also previously reported that the US Navy forces ("sea seals") on Saturday were detained in Somalia of a high-ranking member of the radical group "Ash Shabab", which is supposedly responsible for the terrorist attack in Kenya, who claimed the lives of more than 60 people. Thus, the United States conducted coordinated operations to capture high -ranking terrorists in two countries at the same time.

On September 21, a group of armed people attacked visitors to the fashionable Westgate shopping center in the capital of Kenya Nairobi. The responsibility for the attack was taken by the Ash Shabab group, related to the Al-Qaida International Terrorist Organization. According to official figures, 67 people were killed, 175 people turned from 200 rescued medical help. During the four -day operation to free the hostages in the building, an intensive shootout was carried out, which led to the fire. The structures weakened by fire were hit.

The radical Islamic group "Ash Shabab" ("Movement of young Mujahideen), which has close ties with the Al-Qaida International Terrorist Organization, is based in Somalia. After the attack in Kenya, the militants of the group threatened the country with new attacks if the country's authorities did not withdraw their troops from Somali.