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A suspected al Qaeda figure alleged to have helped plan the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has died in New York just days ahead of his scheduled trial, his son and the prosecutor said.

Abu Anas al-Liby (also spelled al-Libi), whose real name was Nazih al-Ragye, was seized by U.S. forces in October 2013 in the Libyan capital Tripoli and brought to the United States to face criminal charges stemming from the bombings, which killed 224 people.

Liby, 50, died on Friday at a local hospital after being transported from a Manhattan correctional center on Wednesday, according to a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Speaking to Reuters by telephone, his son Ahmed al-Ragye blamed U.S. authorities for his death.

“We hold the U.S. legally responsible for the death of my father. He had developed cancer while being in prison in America,” Ragye said.

“We had undergone surgery in a hospital and had been sent back afterwards to prison though his condition had not been stable,” he said.

“We demand U.S. authorities to send his body back without conducting an autopsy so we can see ourselves and verify why he died.”

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