Muammar Gaddafi and Libyan crisis

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Gaddafi's regime are in all sorts of trouble.

International Criminal Court judges will on Monday decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moamer Gadaffi for crimes against humanity, the court said on its website.

The ICC prosecution has requested three arrest warrants for Gadaffi, his son Seif al-Islam and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, the court said.

ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo opened an inquiry into Libya on March 3. He has said that Gadaffi personally ordered attacks against unarmed civilians and held meetings with his son and intelligence chief "to plan and manage the operations".

A public hearing will be held at the court on Monday at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT).

Moreno Ocampo said in a recent interview that he hoped the arrest warrants would be issued soon.

"We are working on the assumption he (Gadaffi) will be arrested by his people, by members of his regime" and if "that is not possible by the (rebel) National Transitional Council," he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo on June 12.

Libya's deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim retorted that Tripoli was "not concerned" by ICC decisions since it was not a party to the Rome Statute that founded the ICC.

But Moreno Ocampo argued that Libya is bound to cooperate with the court as demanded by a UN Security Council resolution adopted on February 26.

And he maintained that Libya would be legally required to act on the arrest warrants if they are approved by the ICC judges.

Established in 2002, the ICC is the world's first permanent, treaty-based court set up to try those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide if the accused's own country cannot or will not do so.

The uprising against the Gadaffi regime which began in February has led to thousands of deaths, the ICC prosecutor said. Nearly 750,000 people have fled the country, according to the UN.

http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/icc-will-decide-monday-arrest-warrant-gaddafi

[Federate]

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North Africa is a giant tip and Morocco is about the best of the bunch.

Morocco the best in North Africa? A joke? Libya was by far the "best of the bunch" up until the war. It had the highest HDI in Africa (not just North Africa) and the GDP per capita in Libya was $11,000, fourth highest on the continent. Compare this to Morocco where it's $3000

[Muhaha]

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Gaddafi is an idiot. He could have handled this a lot better for the sake of his own people.

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Gaddafi is an idiot. He could have handled this a lot better for the sake of his own people.

Libyan majority in support of Gaddafi


The mass pro-Gaddafi street demonstration of one million Libyans held in the capital Tripoli has gone unreported by Western media as has news of civilians killed for the past three months.

Press TV talks with Lizzie Phelan, journalist and political activist in London who has been to Libya and says that Western media is complicit in war crimes in the North African country through omission of fact and that the vast majority of the population are in support of the Libyan government. Following is a transcript of the interview.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/185602.html

[Muhaha]

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I know. It still doesn't mean anything about how he's handling the situation.

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There's a video on the page.

Cracks in the NATO alliance?

A rise in the number of civilian deaths has called into question NATO's mission in Libya. On Wednesday, Franco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, called for an end to hostilities in the country.

NATO's chief dismissed a call from Italy to suspend operations in Libya and insists the mission will continue, but what is behind the Italy's stance; and does it signal cracks in NATO over Libya?

Inside Story, with presenter Hazem Sika, discusses with Jalal El Gallal, a civilian spokesperson for the media committee for the National Transitional Council - a legislative body working on behalf of the Libyan people; Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute; and Rabah Ghezali, a commentator on Transatlantic affairs at the Huffington Post.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insidestory/2011/06/201162575025327220.html?utm_content=tweets&utm_campaign=Trial3&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_medium=ExperimentMasterAccount&utm_term=twitter

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So just now they start questioning the mission??

[Muhaha]

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They probably questioned it from the beginning but did it silently because they felt the whole thing would be over in like two days so there was no use in talking.

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They probably questioned it from the beginning but did it silently because they felt the whole thing would be over in like two days so there was no use in talking.

I think they expected that Gaddafi and his cronies would cut a deal and go into exile or that their would be a putsch. As Gaddafi's only in control of half the country and his position is clearly untenable.

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International Criminal Court Orders Gadhafi's Arrest

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son and the country's intelligence chief, saying the three committed crimes against humanity while cracking down on an uprising against the government.

Presiding judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng said that there were "reasonable grounds to believe" that the Gadhafi, his son, and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi are "criminally responsible as indirect co-perpetrators" for the murder and persecution of civilians in the early days of the uprising.

"The arrest of Moammar Gadhafi and Seif al-Islam Gadhafi appears necessary at this stage," presiding judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng said.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Gadhafi and his forces opened fire on demonstrators, shelled funeral processions and used snipers to kill people leaving mosques in the early days of the crackdown on rebels fighting to topple Gadhafi after four decades in power.

They now believe those early attacks were just the start of atrocities by pro-Gadhafi forces.

"Crimes continue today in Libya," Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement. "To stop the crimes and protect civilians in Libya, Gadhafi must be arrested."

The arrest warrant is largely symbolic –- at least for now — because the court has no police force and a patchy record on detaining suspects.

Libyan officials rejected the court's authority before the decision was read out in a Hague courtroom. They said the court was unfairly targeting Africans while ignoring what they called crimes committed by NATO in Afghanistan, Iraq "and in Libya now."

"The ICC has no legitimacy whatsoever. We will deal with it...All of its activities are directed at African leaders," government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters Sunday.

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/137443665/international-judges-order-arrest-of-moammar-gadhafi