(CNN) -- A federal judge denied a request in an order issued on Friday to immediately appoint defense counsel to a Libyan man captured last week in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya.

Anas al Libi was seized by American commandos in Tripoli, then transferred to a Navy vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with other accused terrorists, he had been charged by the Justice Department with conspiracy to kill Americans and embassy personnel in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

He is expected to be transferred from military to civilian custody in coming days or weeks to face prosecution in federal court.

Separately on Friday, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan condemned al Libi's capture, calling it a "kidnapping."

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The US kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi was patently illegal