Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Featured on Press TV: 'Kidnapping in Libya Act of Terrorism'

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, has been interviewed on numerous occasions on Press TV. Azikiwe has discussed U.S. foreign policy toward Libya and the African continent., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

US kidnapping of al-Libi act of terrorism

Wed Oct 9, 2013 4:13PM GMT

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The recent abduction of a man in Libya by American military forces without notifying the Libyan government is an act of “terrorism,” an analyst tells Press TV.

“This is an outrage and a complete violation of international law,” Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire, said on Wednesday.

On October 5, US Special Forces kidnapped Abu Anas al-Libi in Tripoli over his alleged involvement in the 1998 twin bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Al-Libi, also known as Nazih al-Ragye, is being held in military custody and interrogated on board a navy ship, the USS Antonio, in the Mediterranean. Officials say al-Libi has not been Mirandized, and is facing open-ended interrogation on the ship without access to a lawyer.

The utilization of international waters for indefinite detention, interrogation and torture is as “equally egregious” as the use of CIA “black sites” where terrorism suspects are detained in undisclosed locations overseas, Azikiwe stated.

The United States has defended al-Libi’s kidnapping as “legal and appropriate,” but the incident has sparked angry reactions from Libya with lawmakers threatening to remove the prime minister if the government was involved.

“A lot of these kidnappings, detentions and interrogations” are carried out to “play to the political dynamics inside the United States,” Azikiwe noted.

“It’s an effort on the part of the Obama administration to make it appear as if it’s waging unrelenting battle on so-called terrorism and yet it is terrorism to go into the country of another nation and take people into detention and not provide any explanation,” he explained.