Secretary of State John Kerry has said the US would continue to seek to bring to justice those responsible for conducting acts of terror, after US forces launched raids in Libya and Somalia.
Yesterdays raids came two weeks after the deadly Islamist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, capturing a top al Qaeda figure wanted for the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, US officials said.
"We hope this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror."
"Those members of al Qaeda and other terrorist organisations literally can run but they can't hide. We will continue to try to bring people to justice in an appropriate way with hopes that ultimately these kinds of activities against everybody in the world will stop," Mr Kerry told reporters during a visit to a port facility on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Senior al Qaeda figure Anas al Liby was seized in the raid in Libya, but a US official said the raid on the Somali town of Barawe failed to capture or kill the intended target from the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab movement.
Anas al Liby, believed to be 49, has been under US indictment for his alleged role in the East Africa embassy bombings that killed 224 people.
The US government has also been offering a $5m reward for information leading to his capture, under the State Department's Rewards for Justice programme.
"As the result of a US counter-terrorism operation, Abu Anas al Liby is currently lawfully detained by the US military in a secure location outside of Libya," Pentagon spokesman George Little said without elaborating.
Anas al Liby, also known as Nazih al-Ragye, was arrested at dawn in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, as he was heading home after morning prayers, a neighbour and militia sources said.
Two Islamist militia sources confirmed the incident.
CNN reported in September last year that Anas al Liby had been seen in Tripoli. It quoted Western intelligence sources as saying there was concern that he may have been tasked with establishing an al Qaeda network in Libya.
That CNN report quoted counter-terrorism analysts as saying that Anas al Liby may not have been apprehended then because of the delicate security situation in much of the country, where former jihadists hold sway.
It quoted one intelligence source as saying that Anas al Liby appeared to have arrived in Libya in the spring of 2011, during the country's civil war.
The Pentagon confirmed US military personnel had been involved in an operation against what it called "a known al Shabaab terrorist," in Somalia, but gave no more details.
Target neither captured nor killed
One US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the al Shabaab leader targeted in the operation was neither captured nor killed.
US officials did not identify the target. They said US forces, trying to avoid civilian casualties, disengaged after inflicting some al Shabaab casualties.
They said no US personnel were wounded or killed in the operation, which one US source said was carried out by a Navy SEAL team.
A Somali intelligence official said the target of the raid at Barawe, about 180km south of Mogadishu, was a Chechen commander, who had been wounded and his guard killed.
Police said a total of seven people were killed.
The New York Times quoted a spokesman for al Shabaab as saying that one of its fighters had been killed in an exchange of gunfire but that the group had beaten back the assault.
It also quoted an unnamed US security official as saying that the Barawe raid was planned a week and a half ago in response to the al Shabaab assault on the Westgate shopping mall last month in which at least 67 people died.
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