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Somalia arrests terrorist on FBI most wanted list

Xinhua, March 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Somalia has arrested one of the most wanted terrorists on the list of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the country's intelligence agency said Tuesday.

Liban Haji Mohamed, a Somali-born U.S. citizen and former Washington-area taxi driver, was captured while he was travelling from the southern city of Juba to the capital Mogadishu, and is being detained by security forces for questioning, Somali's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said.

The FBI had placed a 50,000 U.S. dollar bounty on the arrest of Mohamed, who left the U.S. in 2012 for Somalia and allegedly supported the militant group Al-Shabaab.

The NISA did not provide further information on the prosecution of Mohamed as it remains unclear if he will be extradited to the U. S..

The FBI has indicated it is pursuing his extradition, but admitted it is challenging since Somalia and the U.S. do not have extradition agreements. Endi