A former taxi driver from Northern Virginia who was on the FBI's list of most-wanted terrorists has been captured in Somalia.
Liban Mohamed, 29, is charged with providing material support to al Qaeda and the Somali-based group al Shabaab.
He worked as a taxi driver in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County and has lived in other Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.
The FBI believes Mohamed, who was born in Somalia but is a naturalised US citizen, left America in 2012.
It considered Mohamed's arrest a priority because of his knowledge of the nation's capital and its landmarks.
The man, currently in Somali custody, is one of about 30 people on the FBI's most-wanted list for terrorists.
The FBI has also described Mohamed as a "close associate" of Zachary Chesser, another Northern Virginia man who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for trying to join al Shabaab, an al Qaeda affiliate.
Chesser also made online threats against the creators of the South Park cartoon for an episode perceived as an insult to the prophet Mohammed.
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