US forces have captured an al Qaeda leader in Libya linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in east Africa and wanted by the FBI for more than a decade.
A Pentagon spokesman identified the suspect as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al Libi, who has been on America's most wanted terrorists list since it was introduced after the September 11 attacks.
His capture represents a significant blow to what remains of the core al Qaeda organisation, once led by Osama bin Laden.
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in Bali for an economic summit, spoke about the Libya operation and Saturday's aborted raid to capture an al Shabaab leader in Somalia, and said terrorists "can run but they can't hide".
"We hope that this makes clear that the USA will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror," he said.
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 toppling and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
His brother Nabih said the 49-year-old was parking outside his house early on Saturday after dawn prayers, when three vehicles encircled his vehicle. The gunmen smashed his car window and seized his weapon before grabbing him and fleeing.
The US embassy in Nairobi was attacked in 1998 Al Libi's wife saw the kidnapping from her window and described the abductors as foreign-looking armed "commandos", he said.
US officials said there were no American casualties in the operation.
Al Libi, who had a $5m (£3.1m) FBI bounty on his head, was charged by a US federal court for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 250 people.
He is believed to be an al Qaeda computer specialist, and studied electronic and nuclear engineering at Tripoli University, and was anti-Gaddafi.
He is believed to have spent time in Sudan, where 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 the Metropolitan Police in 1999, but was released because of lack of evidence and later fled the UK.
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