(REUTERS) A man named by President Bush as one of the 22 most dangerous in the world has been captured in Sudan, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

Citing unnamed U.S. intelligence sources, the newspaper said Abu Anas Al-Liby, described as a senior militant from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, is being held at a high-security prison in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

Abu Anas is accused of plotting the 1998 American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people and injured more than 4,000, according to the report.

"He is one of nine militants seized in Khartoum and now being handed over to U.S. authorities," the Sunday Times quoted a source close to the CIA as saying.

The newspaper said that in the days after the September 11 attacks on the United States, between 30 and 40 al Qaeda members were secretly rounded up in Sudan and flown to Egypt. A further 10 were arrested last month, including Abu Anas.

The suspect lived in Manchester, northern England, before fleeing Britain two years ago as an arrest warrant was issued for him by the United States, the paper said.

British police tracked him down to his home in May 2000, but he had left by the time they raided it, the Sunday Times said.

Among possessions found at his flat was a manual entitled "Military Studies in the Jihad against Tyrants," the paper said.

A Scotland Yard spokesman in London declined to comment on the story.

Sudan is on a U.S. government list of state sponsors of "terrorism." But Khartoum and Washington opened a dialogue on terrorism in mid-2000, leading to what the United States described as "some positive results."