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Diplomats warn westerners in Libya face growing threat of violence
Diplomats are warning of growing Islamist violence against western targets in Libya as blowback from the war in Mali, following last week’sattack on the French embassy in Tripoli. The bomb blast that wrecked much of the embassy is seen as a reprisal by Libyan militants for the decision by Paris the day before…
UK government pays Libyan dissident’s family £2.2 million over MI6-aided rendition
Sami al-Saadi, wife and four children were secretly flown from Hong Kong to Tripoli where he was tortured by Gaddafi police Ministers have agree to pay more than £2m to the family of a prominent Libyan dissident abducted with the help of MI6 and secretly flown to Tripoli where he…
Human Rights Watch: U.S. covering up the extent of waterboarding in CIA prisons
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the US government of covering up the extent of waterboarding at secret CIA prisons, alleging that Libyan opponents of Muammar Gaddafi were subjected to the torture before being handed over to the former dictator’s security police. The New York-based human rights group has cast…
The secrets of Saif Gaddafi’s jail: chef, satellite TV and a basketball court for just one
Muammar Gaddafi’s eldest son is due to be taken to a prison within a prison in the suburbs of Tripoli to await trial. Behind a grey forbidding wall on the outskirts of the Libyan capital sits a secret prison constructed to hold just one prisoner – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. The…
Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya: source
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian security forces have found a large cache of weapons, including shoulder-fired missiles, which they believe were smuggled in from neighboring Libya, a security source briefed on the discovery told Reuters on Saturday. The find follows warnings from governments in the region that instability in Libya after…
Reuters Exclusive: The capture of Gaddafi’s son
OBARI, Libya (Reuters) – The chic black sweater and jeans were gone. So too the combat khaki T-shirt of his televised last stand in Tripoli. Designer stubble had become bushy black beard after months on the run. But the rimless glasses, framing those piercing eyes above that straight fine nose,…
Rice tells Stewart: Gaddafi wrote a song about me
On Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart interviewed ex-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to talk about a variety of topics — including former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s bizarre fixation with her. “Several of my foreign minister colleagues had told me, before back in 2008 I went to…
ICC fears Gaddafi’s son will flee from justice
TRIPOLI/BEIJING (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court said Saturday that Libya’s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was in contact via intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation. U.S. military and government representatives held security talks in neighboring Niger…
Libya’s Saif al-Islam bids to escape father’s fate
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is expected to try to surrender to the International Criminal Court or seek refuge in a friendly African country as he races to escape his father’s fate. The Hague-based ICC said on Friday the 39-year-old had been in touch. It urged him to…
ICC prosecutor in contact with Gaddafi’s son over surrender
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Friday that his office was in “informal contact” with the late Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Saif al-Islam over his possible surrender to the war crimes court. Saif al-Islam went on the run after forces loyal to Libya’s new rulers captured…
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