US forces conduct raids in Libya, Somalia

US special forces captured a Libyan al-Qaeda leader linked to the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, seizing him outside his Tripoli home and whisking him out of the country.

A Navy SEAL team that swam ashore hours earlier in Somalia engaged in a fierce firefight, but did not apprehend a terrorist suspected in the recent Kenyan mall siege.

“We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror,” US secretary of state John Kerry said yesterday while in Indonesia for an economic summit. “Members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations literally can run, but they can’t hide.”