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Interpol Issues Arrest Warrant For Gadhafi

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Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on charges that he has committed crimes against humanity.

In a statement released Friday, Interpol says it issued a “red notice” for the arrest of Mr. Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, asking all 188 member countries to help locate and apprehend them.

Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble called Gadhafi a “fugitive,” and said the arrest warrant will help restrict his ability to cross international borders.

Gadhafi, whose whereabouts are unknown, has been on the run since anti-regime fighters swept into the capital of Tripoli on August 21.

On Thursday, a Syrian television station aired an audio message purportedly from Mr. Gadhafi, who rejected reports he may have fled the country for neighboring Niger. Gadhafi said his forces are still able to carry out attacks against National Transitional Council fighters, who he called “rats, germs and scumbags.”

Meanwhile, the head of Libya’s provisional government says the battle for liberation is not yet finished, and that the country must be unified in order to rebuild after six months of civil war.

Speaking in his first major address from the capital Tripoli on Thursday, National Transitional Council leader Mahmoud Jibril said there are still some cities in Libya’s south in the hands of forces loyal to ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi. He says a new government can only be formed once fighting ends and the entire country is “liberated.”

Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday the transition process in Libya cannot move backwards, and the United Nations will continue to help the Libyan people reach their aspirations of human rights and democracy.

NATO said Thursday its warplanes bombed five armored vehicles near Mr. Gadhafi’s hometown, Sirte, as well as 18 surface-to-air missile systems around the town of Waddan, 300 kilometers to the south.

Near Bani Walid, a desert town held by Gadhafi supporters, negotiators from Libya’s National Transitional Council say they are committed to avoiding bloodshed as they press tribal elders tied to the former leader to surrender.

VOA

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4 responses to “Interpol Issues Arrest Warrant For Gadhafi”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Hmmm … maybe someone should look in the one place that has people who will not listen to an international court order … a cave in the south of Liban … Gadhafi seemed to like underground structures too.

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    Anonymous

    Hmmm … maybe someone should look in the one place that has people who will not listen to an international court order … a cave in the south of Liban … Gadhafi seemed to like underground structures too.

  3. Sebouh80 Avatar
    Sebouh80

    This is a Joke. May I remind this imperilaist agency that the NATO backed rebels have also committed crimes against humanity. The widespread racist persecution of immigrant African workers and black Libyans by forces opposed to Libyan ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is a damning indictment of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) and its western backers.

    The US and its European allies launched their neo-colonial war against the Gaddafi regime on the pretext of protecting civilians and have hailed their new client regime as the beginning of a new era of democracy in Libya. Mass racist reprisals in NTC-held areas are yet another devastating exposure of these tattered lies. As well as killing and maiming civilians through its relentless bombing, NATO bears responsibility for the arbitrary arrest, physical abuse or extra-judicial killings of thousands of black Africans by its NTC proxies.

    US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an end to the systematic detention of black Africans accused of fighting as Gaddafi’s mercenaries. HRW regional director Sarah Leah Whitson stated: “It’s a dangerous time to be dark-skinned in Tripoli. The NTC should stop arresting African migrants and black Libyans unless it has concrete evidence of criminal activity. It should also take concrete steps to protect them from violence and abuse.”

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    Anonymous

    This is a Joke. May I remind this imperilaist agency that the NATO backed rebels have also committed crimes against humanity. The widespread racist persecution of immigrant African workers and black Libyans by forces opposed to Libyan ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is a damning indictment of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) and its western backers.

    The US and its European allies launched their neo-colonial war against the Gaddafi regime on the pretext of protecting civilians and have hailed their new client regime as the beginning of a new era of democracy in Libya. Mass racist reprisals in NTC-held areas are yet another devastating exposure of these tattered lies. As well as killing and maiming civilians through its relentless bombing, NATO bears responsibility for the arbitrary arrest, physical abuse or extra-judicial killings of thousands of black Africans by its NTC proxies.

    US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an end to the systematic detention of black Africans accused of fighting as Gaddafi’s mercenaries. HRW regional director Sarah Leah Whitson stated: “It’s a dangerous time to be dark-skinned in Tripoli. The NTC should stop arresting African migrants and black Libyans unless it has concrete evidence of criminal activity. It should also take concrete steps to protect them from violence and abuse.”

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