Wife of 'most wanted' captured terrorist al-Libi claims husband had left Al-Qaeda

Washington, Oct. 7 (ANI): The wife of an accused al Qaeda operative captured by U.S. forces from Libya has said masked men ambushed her husband when he was on the way home from morning prayers.

While U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Abu Anas al Libi 'one of the world's most wanted terrorists,' al Libi's wife described him a different way in an exclusive interview with CNN on Sunday.

According to CNN, Umm Abdul Rahman called al Libi an innocent man, adding that he left al Qaeda in 1996 and had no connection to the twin 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Al Libi was among those indicted for the embassy attacks by a federal grand jury in New York, and U.S. officials, the report added. (ANI)