Official: trial of Libya's Gadhafi's son in August

June 17, 2013 @ 2:22 pm

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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The trial of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son, his spy chief and his last prime minister will take place in August, a top Libyan official said Monday.

Al-Seddik al-Sur of the state prosecutor's office told reporters that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, Abdullah al-Senoussi and ex-premier al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, along with ex-spokesman Milad Daman, will be tried for crimes committed during under Gadhafi's 42-year rule and during the eight-month civil war that deposed him.

Last week Libya appealed the International Criminal Court's order to try Seif al-Islam in The Hague. Libya also asked for suspension of its order to him over to the ICC.

Seif al-Islam is being held by a militia in the Libyan town of Zintan. ICC judges ruled that Libya cannot give Seif al-Islam a fair trial.

With no national army or police in place since the fall of Gadhafi's regime, successive governments have been too weak to either secure Seif al-Islam's imprisonment in the capital, Tripoli, or put pressure on his captors to hand him over to the government. Gadhafi's son is also being tried on separate charges of harming state security.

Also Monday, two senior Gadhafi officials, former Foreign Minister Abdel-Ati al-Obeidi and ex-Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Zway were acquitted of wasting public funds while paying compensation to victims of a bombing on an airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. The amount of the compensation was $2.7 billion. Libya's regime was held responsible.

The 1988 bombing was one of the deadliest attacks on an airliner in modern history, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas.


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  • len98531 wrote...
    Send in the Bin Laden Seals
    June 27, 2011 8:16 am
    they'll get the job done.
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  • artimus wrote...
    Good
    September 7, 2011 9:42 am
    The sooner the better.
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  • Dark Jedi wrote...
    So Gadhafi is gone
    October 20, 2011 5:33 am
    Who steps into the power and what will they do with the power? Did we change one devil for another?
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Send in seal team OBAMA!
    October 20, 2011 5:43 am
    Remember how Obama went in and single handedly took out OBL? Our wonderfull Dear Leader can do the same here.

    Can't wait to see that Obama bounce in the polls!

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Who steps in after Kdaffi?
    October 20, 2011 5:44 am
    Somenoe who is hostile to the west and the US.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    It's amazing...
    October 20, 2011 6:27 am
    how quickly Hussein Obama will turn on his friends. He even threw his granny under the tour bus.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Gaddafi is not his friend fool!
    October 20, 2011 9:49 am
    The difference is that Obama kicks the crap out of tyrants instead of trying to make money off chasing them around like W the rest of the GOP clowns. Obama got Osama Bin laden and Gadaffi - under three years time.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    bush lovers take note . . . . .
    October 20, 2011 7:05 am
    How many more US soldiers has Obama put into that ILLEGAL war Iraq? How many have died since Obama inhabited the White House? All this after he ran LIED on cutting troops and the military. How many more wars has your Dear Leader gotten us into since 2009? Your Dear Leader is doing all this just for the chance for more votes. American blood for Obama votes is all this is!

    And you Obama Cultist need to remember this, Bush is no longer in office. Your Dear Leader owns this!

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  • wsualumn wrote...
    Amnesia or ADD?
    October 20, 2011 7:51 am
    Obama said more troops in Afghanistan when he ran. I have mentioned this to you more than once. Obama did what NATO requested. There was a time when The GOP wanted Ghadafi gone. Now it seems to be a problem for some of them Gee, I wonder why? He is also reducing the troop level in Iraq and which party is complaining about it? Hint: it isn't the Dems.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    They dont want to know the truth
    October 20, 2011 9:51 am
    Truth hurts them too mutch.
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  • Angry Monkey wrote...
    @ Haha! - wow dude...
    October 20, 2011 1:50 pm
    How many more US soldiers has Obama put into that ILLEGAL war Iraq?

    You mean the illegal war that President Bush got the US involved in based on flimsy evidence? To answer your question, President Obama has been pulling troops out of Iraq since 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/01/02/commander-says-troop-drawdown-iraq-track/

    How many more wars has your Dear Leader gotten us into since 2009?

    Zero (0). The US action in Libya is, and always has been a supporting roll, that we agreed to at the behest of NATO.

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  • DesertRez wrote...
    Good
    October 20, 2011 7:26 am
    I am glad Gadhafi is dead, but what will this country be like in 10 years?
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  • Market72 wrote...
    Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
    October 20, 2011 8:02 am
    DesertRez... That country will look the same. It's a crap-hole.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Obammy
    October 20, 2011 8:04 am
    would love to get a hold of the uniform. He could dress up for Moochelle and the two could fantasize about having totalitarian control for 42 years.
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