In a federal court on Tuesday, the alleged Al Qaeda operative involved in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Abu Anas al Libi, plead not guilty to terrorism charges.

Al Libi was taken into custody on October 5th outside of his house in Tripoli, Libya, in a daring raid by U.S. Army Delta Force soldiers. He was then taken to a U.S. Navy ship in the Mediterranean for questioning. He was brought to New York to face trial over the weekend.

Al Libi was indicted in 2001 by the federal court in New York over his alleged role within al Qaeda.

Al Libi's appearance in federal court has reopened debates as to whether foreign terrorism suspects should be tried in U.S. courts.

The Obama administration has insisted that it does not want to continue using the military prison in Guantanamo to hold and convict terror suspects the U.S. captures in the future.

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