I haven't seen them in a while.
"Int'l Court in indirect talks with Gadhafi son" by Arthur Max Associated Press / October 28, 2011
AMSTERDAM—The International Criminal Court is in indirect negotiations with a son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi about his possible surrender for trial, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo told The Associated Press talks were being held through intermediaries, whom he did not identify, to assure Seif al-Islam Gadhafi that he would receive a fair trial and that he could be helped to find a new country of residence if he were acquitted or after completing a prison sentence.
He said he did not know exactly where Gadhafi is.
The 39-year-old was reported to be heading through the desert to Mali, where the former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi fled Wednesday.
An adviser to the president of Niger said Gadhafi should cross the border into Mali later Friday or Saturday. Gadhafi and al-Senoussi were indicted by the International Criminal Court in June for unleashing a campaign of murder and torture to suppress the uprising against the Gadhafi regime that broke out in February.
I no longer consider the ICC to be a legitimate court because they don't prosecute western war criminals that do the same thing (like Bliar or Bush).
The adviser in Niger, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Gadhafi was driving through the desert across an invisible line that separates Algeria from Niger. He said Seif al-Islam is being aided by Tuaregs, nomadic desert dwellers who supported Gadhafi and were angered by the manner of his death.
In Mali, Foreign Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said he had no information about Gadhafi's whereabouts but that if he were to enter Malian territory, its government would respect any international arrest warrant.
Moreno-Ocampo said he believed Gadhafi also was in touch with unidentified mercenaries offering to find him refuge in an African country that does not cooperate with the court. He mentioned Zimbabwe as a likely possibility....
That's all my printed Globe gave me.
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"UN votes to lift Libya no-fly zone, end military action; Operations cease at end of month, NATO confirms" October 28, 2011|By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - Meanwhile, Khadafy’s intelligence chief, who is wanted by Interpol, has fled to Mali after making his way across Niger, where he had been hiding for several days in the country’s northern desert, an adviser to Niger’s president said yesterday.
The official, who could not be named because of the sensitive nature of the matter, said that Abdullah al-Senoussi entered Mali late Wednesday via the Kidal region, which shares a border with Niger.
Senoussi is guarded by a unit of about a dozen people and arrived in a convoy piloted by ethnic Tuaregs from Mali.
The adviser said that Khadafy’s hunted son, Seif al-Islam, was also on his way to Mali, traveling across the border between Algeria and Niger.
The area, a lawless expanse of dunes stretching for hundreds of miles, has been used for years by drug traffickers as well as an offshoot of Al Qaeda and has nearly no government presence....
Related: Joe Camel Works For "Al-CIA-Duh"
Yeah, someone is blowing some smoke.
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And guess what?
They got him!
"Khadafy’s son seized in southwest Libya desert; Capture reveals power struggle of rebel factions" November 20, 2011|By Clifford Krauss and David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan militia fighters yesterday captured Seif al-Islam Khadafy, the last fugitive son and onetime heir apparent of Moammar Khadafy, setting off nationwide celebrations but also exposing a potential power struggle between former-rebel factions over his handling.
Militia leaders based in Zintan, a western mountain town and stronghold of resistance to Khadafy’s regime, said they captured Seif al-Islam Khadafy early yesterday in the southwestern desert near Awbari, along with a small entourage.
But while transitional government leaders in the capital, Tripoli, promised that Seif al-Islam Khadafy would be closely guarded and turned over to the International Criminal Court to be tried on war crimes charges, leaders in Zintan insisted that they would not hand him over until a formal national government was formed.
That process is in the works, but still at least a day or two away, raising the possibility that Seif al-Islam Khadafy could be a bargaining chip to ensure a larger Zintani role in the new government.
Such insistence on factional power is at the heart of international concerns about Libya’s future.
This is the big win?
And after Moammar Khadafy’s capture and killing at the hands of militiamen a month ago, his son’s case will be an important test of Libya’s commitment to the rule of law.
Why should they have to pass a test that Amerika does not respect?
A reporter for Reuters was on the plane with Seif al-Islam Khadafy as the fighters flew him from Awbari to Zintan. The reporter said that although Khadafy appeared very frightened, he was in decent condition. He wore a heavy beard, and showed his heavily bandaged right hand, which he said was wounded in a NATO airstrike a month ago.
I'm sure he was thinking they are gonna do me like they did my dad.
For years, Seif al-Islam Khadafy cultivated an image at home and abroad as the face of change in Libya. An international playboy in his youth, he went on to earn a doctoral degree at the London School of Economics.
In other words, he could have been our man had Libya not been sitting on a pile of oil and water while Goldman Sachs owed them billions for ripping them off in shady, mortgage-backed securities deals.
He championed the cause of modernizing and liberalizing Libya, including loosening the restrictions on political speech his father had maintained for decades, opening up free enterprise, and adopting a constitution.
But when the revolt against Moammar Khadafy broke out in late February, Seif al-Islam Khadafy warned that the government would crush the “rats’’ who challenged his father’s rule.
See what cooperating with the international community gets you?
You never know when the double-cross is coming.
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Speaking of which:
"Libya says it will try Khadafy’s son" November 21, 2011|By Hadeel Al-Shalchi, Associated Press
ZINTAN, Libya - Libya’s new leaders said yesterday they will try Moammar Khadafy’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court, where he is charged with crimes against humanity.
The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who is wanted by the court as well.
I include him in this post because he must have been like a son.
In one of several emerging complications, however, the former rebel faction that captured Seif al-Islam Khadafy Saturday is refusing to deliver him to national authorities in Tripoli, raising concern over whether he will get a proper trial and demonstrating the interim leaders’ weak hold over their fractured nation.
In the capital, Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam said former Intelligence Minister Abdullah al-Senoussi was captured yesterday by revolutionary fighters from a southern region called Fazan, not far from where Khadafy’s son was seized while trying to flee to neighboring Niger.
Fighters tracking Senoussi for two days caught up with him at his sister’s house in Deerat al-Shati, about 40 miles south of the desert city of Sebha, said fighter Abdullah al-Sughayer. There were few other immediate details on his capture, and it was not clear whether his captors would also resist turning him over to Tripoli.
Though they are wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, both men will probably be tried at home by the Libyan government....
Like any Amerikan, Brit, Israeli.... if there were to be a trial. Rarely are, and even those usually result in acquittal.
Seif al-Islam, who was once the face of reform in Libya and who led his father’s drive to emerge from pariah status over the last decade, was captured by fighters from the small western mountain town of Zintan who had tracked him to the desert in the south of the country.
He was then flown to Zintan, 85 miles southwest of Tripoli, where he remains in a secret location.
He's being held at a CIA site!!!!
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"Hague prosecutor seeks a fair trial for Khadafy son" November 23, 2011|Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya - The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor held talks yesterday with Libyan authorities on ensuring a fair trial for Moammar Khadafy’s son Seif al-Islam, who is being held by revolutionary fighters.
The prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, conceded the Libyans have the authority to try him at home, but he wants judges from The Hague, Netherlands court to be involved. Seif al-Islam, once the face of reform in Libya and the leader of his father’s effort to shake off pariah status, is charged with crimes against humanity by the ICC for the crackdown on an uprising that began in February and grew into a civil war....
After toppling Khadafy’s regime in August, Libya’s new leaders are still struggling to solidify their control over the fractured nation and to begin building state institutions that were nonexistent or weak under Khadafy’s 42-year rule.
Among the most important steps is establishing a court system, which the International Criminal Court wants to be certain will be capable of holding a fair trial for Seif al-Islam. He was captured Saturday in southern Libya and is being held by fighters in the mountain town of Zintan.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva visited Seif al-Islam there yesterday and said he appeared to be in good health. Steven Anderson, a Red Cross spokesman, said the visit “took place in accordance with the ICRC’s customary working procedures’’ and all further findings would remain confidential.
Libya’s new leaders have said they will try Seif al-Islam at home even though they have yet to set up a strong court system.
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What about the other kids?
"Mexico thwarts plot to smuggle Khadafy son into country; Several accused of scheme to hide family at resort" December 08, 2011|By Randal C. Archibold, New York Times
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said yesterday that it had broken up a plot to smuggle into Mexico one of the sons of the former Libyan leader, Moammar Khadafy, and hide him and his family at a Pacific beach resort.
Alejandro Poire, the interior minister, said the elaborate plan to bring in Saadi Khadafy had been uncovered by Mexican intelligence agents and had resulted in the arrest of several conspirators, including two Mexicans, a Canadian, and a Dane.
Poire said Khadafy, who fled Libya in September to Niger as his father’s regime crumbled, and his family were going to receive false documents identifying them as Mexican and live in a house that already had been acquired.
He spoke the day after a Canadian newspaper, the National Post, published a detailed article on the plan, saying a Canadian security company had helped in the arrangements to bring Khadafy to a multimillion-dollar refuge at Punta Mita in Nayarit State, which is favored by celebrities.
Poire said the plan called for contracting private flights in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Kosovo, and several Mideast countries.
It was unclear where the money for the safe house would come from; the United Nations had frozen the family’s assets, and the Mexican government said Khadafy faced an Interpol warrant related to his role leading military units fighting the uprising.
Khadafy has a reputation among his father’s children as an international playboy who dabbled in many careers, including Hollywood film production. As his father’s power eroded in the rebellion, Khadafy portrayed himself as a peacemaker, offering at one point to negotiate with rebels.
Mexico said it had detected the plot Sept. 6 and made arrests Nov. 10 and 11, calling the law enforcement effort to break up the conspiracy “Operation Guest.’’
I thought conspiracies were only for.... never mind.
It identified those in custody as Cynthia Ann Vanier, a Canadian who was leader of the group and the direct contact with the Khadafy family, in charge of financial arrangements; Gabriela Davila Huerta, who also used the last name de Cueto, a Mexican with US residency who was a link to document forgers; Pierre Christian Flensborg, a Danish citizen who was handling logistics; and Jose Luis Kennedy Prieto, a Mexican citizen in charge of getting false documents.
“Avoiding the illegal entry of Saadi Khadafy to our country constitutes, beyond a doubt, another sign of the capability of Mexican institutions to safeguard the integrity of our national territory,’’ Poire said.
This is starting to smell like a set-up.
Mexico is better known for opaque investigations and police forces infiltrated by criminal groups, but this is the second time in two months that it has sought to celebrate a triumph in international investigations.
In October, it announced its role in denying entry and returning to the United States an Iranian-American man charged with seeking the help of drug cartels to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
Pffffft!
See: U.S. Government Uses Texas Used Car Salesman to Sell Terror Plot
Turns out the Mossad gave the Texas car salesman his paperwork, and that the other suspect is a member of MKO, the CIA/Mossad front group for regime change and that worked with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980-88 war. No wonder Iranians of all stripes don't like them.
Oh, yeah, US is harboring them, too.
Moammar Khadafy, one of the Arab world’s longest-serving autocrats, was killed Oct. 20, after he was captured by opposition militia members who had besieged his final stronghold in the Mediterranean enclave of Surt in the final days of the Libyan revolution, the most violent of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Of Khadafy’s seven other children besides Saadi, three were killed and one was captured during the conflict, and three fled to neighboring Algeria in August.
Then we know where they are -- except for the one captured.
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"Khadafy’s son denies plot to enter Mexico" December 10, 2011|Associated Press
CAIRO - The son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy “vigorously denies’’ having plotted to illegally sneak into Mexico to escape his home country after the fall of his father’s regime, his lawyer said yesterday.
Al Saadi Khadafy fled to the neighboring country of Niger in September, and the government there has given him refugee status.
Then it WAS a PIECE of PROPAGANDA POOH-POOH!
Of course, GOVERNMENTS would NEVER FORGE EVIDENCE or FRAME PEOPLE, right?
Mexico said Wednesday that Saadi and three relatives had also initiated plans to sneak into Mexico under false names and take clandestine refuge at a Pacific coast resort.
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The fact that the story was quickly dropped by the mouthpiece media is confirmation in my mind.
Also see: Mexican Mischief
