Gadhafi son ready to surrender?
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October 27, 2011, Thursday
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MOAMMAR Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi propose to hand themselves in to the International Criminal Court, a senior official with Libya's National Transitional Council said yesterday.
"They are proposing a way to hand themselves over to The Hague," Abdel Majid Mlegta said.
Spokesman for the Hague court Fadi El Abdallah said: "We don't have confirmation about this now. We are trying to contact the NTC for more information."
Saif al-Islam is wanted by the war crimes court, as was his late father. There is also a warrant out for al-Senussi.
Saif al-Islam has been on the run since Libyan forces overran his father's hometown Sirte over the weekend. He is thought to be somewhere near Libya's southern border with Niger.
Mlegta said his information came from intelligence sources who told him that Saif al-Islam and al-Senussi were trying to broker a deal to surrender to the court through a neighboring country, which he did not name. They had concluded that it was not safe for them to remain in Libya, or to go to Algeria or Niger, two countries where Gadhafi family members are already sheltering.
"They feel that it is not safe for them to stay where they are or to go anywhere," Mlegta said.
They also said that Niger was asking for too much money for them to stay.
Meanwhile, Libya's interim leaders hope to ask the Security Council to end UN authorization for a no-fly zone and NATO intervention by Monday but need a few days to decide, a Libyan UN envoy said yesterday. Libyan Deputy UN Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told the 15-nation council that Libya's people are "looking forward to terminating the no-fly zone over Libya as well as terminating the mandate accorded by Security Council resolution 1973 to protect civilians as soon as possible."
Apparently responding to calls from various senior UN officials for an investigation into the circumstances behind the death of Gadhafi after his capture last week, Dabbashi denied that NTC soldiers had summarily executed him. Gadhafi died of wounds he had suffered prior to his capture, he said.
He added that the Libyans were conducting an investigation.
"They are proposing a way to hand themselves over to The Hague," Abdel Majid Mlegta said.
Spokesman for the Hague court Fadi El Abdallah said: "We don't have confirmation about this now. We are trying to contact the NTC for more information."
Saif al-Islam is wanted by the war crimes court, as was his late father. There is also a warrant out for al-Senussi.
Saif al-Islam has been on the run since Libyan forces overran his father's hometown Sirte over the weekend. He is thought to be somewhere near Libya's southern border with Niger.
Mlegta said his information came from intelligence sources who told him that Saif al-Islam and al-Senussi were trying to broker a deal to surrender to the court through a neighboring country, which he did not name. They had concluded that it was not safe for them to remain in Libya, or to go to Algeria or Niger, two countries where Gadhafi family members are already sheltering.
"They feel that it is not safe for them to stay where they are or to go anywhere," Mlegta said.
They also said that Niger was asking for too much money for them to stay.
Meanwhile, Libya's interim leaders hope to ask the Security Council to end UN authorization for a no-fly zone and NATO intervention by Monday but need a few days to decide, a Libyan UN envoy said yesterday. Libyan Deputy UN Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told the 15-nation council that Libya's people are "looking forward to terminating the no-fly zone over Libya as well as terminating the mandate accorded by Security Council resolution 1973 to protect civilians as soon as possible."
Apparently responding to calls from various senior UN officials for an investigation into the circumstances behind the death of Gadhafi after his capture last week, Dabbashi denied that NTC soldiers had summarily executed him. Gadhafi died of wounds he had suffered prior to his capture, he said.
He added that the Libyans were conducting an investigation.
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