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===Court appearance=== On 15 October 2013, al-Libi appeared in a [[Manhattan]] [[United States federal court|federal court]] and pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges, including helping to plan the U.S. embassy bombings in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Abu Anas al Libi, al Qaeda suspect nabbed in Libya, pleads not guilty to terrorism charges|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57607598/abu-anas-al-liby-al-qaeda-suspect-nabbed-in-libya-pleads-not-guilty-to-terrorism-charges/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015210229/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57607598/abu-anas-al-liby-al-qaeda-suspect-nabbed-in-libya-pleads-not-guilty-to-terrorism-charges/|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 October 2013|work=CBS News|access-date=16 October 2013}}</ref> He was held without bail due to concerns that he was a flight risk and a danger to the community.<ref name=CNN>{{cite news|last=Feyerick|first=Deborah|title=Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi pleads not guilty|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/justice/al-libi-case/index.html?iref=allsearch|agency=CNN|access-date=16 October 2013|date=16 October 2013}}</ref> His trial, along with his co-defendant [[Khalid al-Fawwaz]], a.k.a. "Khaled Abdul Rahman Hamad al Fawwaz," a.k.a. "Abu Omar," a.k.a. "Hamad," was scheduled to begin on 3 November 2014, before Judge [[Lewis A. Kaplan]].<ref name=Doj2014-09-19/> He was scheduled to stand trial in New York on 12 January 2015.<ref name="Benjamin Weiser and Michael S. Schmidt">{{cite news|author=Benjamin Weiser and Michael S. Schmidt|title=Qaeda Suspect Facing Trial in New York Over Africa Embassy Bombings Dies|quote=The man, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, 50, who had liver cancer, was taken to a hospital on Wednesday from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he was being held pending a trial that was to begin in Manhattan a week from Monday.|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=3 January 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/politics/qaeda-suspect-facing-trial-in-new-york-dies-in-custody.html|access-date=3 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Kevin Johnson|title=Accused plotter of U.S. Embassy bombings dies in N.Y.|quote=His trial had been set to start Jan. 12.|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=3 January 2015| url =https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/03/embassy-bombings-suspect-dies-al-libi/21224685/|access-date=3 January 2015}}</ref>
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