Libya's government has condemned the United States for what it called the 'kidnapping of a Libyan citizen'.
An alleged al-Qaeda operative was arrested outside his home by Special Operations forces in Tripoli and was secretly removed from Libya in a rare instance of U.S. military involvement in 'rendition'.
Rendition is the practice of grabbing terrorism suspects to face trial without an extradition proceeding and long the province of the CIA or the FBI, the Washington Post reports.
According to the report, U.S. officials hailed the capture of Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, who was wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
The raid in Tripoli came hours after U.S. Navy SEALs stormed a beachside compound in Somalia in a failed attempt to nab a senior militant leader from the East African country's al-Qaeda franchise, known as al-Shabab.
The Libyan government condemned what it called the "kidnapping" of one of its citizens after Ruqai, known by the alias Anas al-Libi, was forced out of his car and captured by foreign-looking "commandos.