Officials said Mr. Imam was living in Tripoli and had recently traveled to Misurata, a coastal city between Tripoli and Benghazi. Sessions has said for years that terrorism suspects should be held and prosecuted at Guantánamo Bay. He has said that terrorists do not deserve the same legal rights as common criminals and that such trials were too dangerous to hold in the United States. Earlier this year, the United States extradited a man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda from Spain to stand trial in the United States. He was taken to an American warship and had to be quickly flown to the United States because of serious health problems.

Source: Libya Today October 30, 2017 19:20 UTC