NEW YORK CITY: A Libyan al-Qaeda suspect on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) pleaded not guilty in a New York court to conspiracy charges over the 1998 United States (US) embassy bombings in East Africa that killed 244 people.

Anas al-Libi was snatched from the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli by US commandos on October 5 and at the weekend was brought to New York, where he was indicted by a grand jury in 2000.

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