ICC asks Interpol to issue red notice warrant for Gaddafi – He vows to stay in Libya

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, September 8th, 2011

The International Criminal Court prosecutor said yesterday he is asking Interpol to issue red notice arrest warrants for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.

The ICC issued arrest warrants in June for all three for crimes against humanity. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he wants Interpol to issue a red notice to arrest Muammar Gaddafi for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder and persecution. “Arresting Gaddafi is (a) matter of time”, he said. Meanwhile, Gaddafi resurfaced on the air waves to berate his enemies as rats and stray dogs and insist he was still in Libya to fight on, but he offered them no clues about where they could find him.

His defiant comments to a Syrian TV station came as the forces of Libya’s new government tightened a siege on the tribal bastion of Bani Walid, where some suspect the ousted strongman and two of his sons may be sheltering. In exchanges of fire, Gaddafi loyalists in the town launched Grad rockets.
In what Syrian broadcaster Arrai said was a telephone call from Libya early yesterday, the 69-year-old Gaddafi, who was toppled by rebels two weeks ago after 42 years in power, rallied supporters and said surrender was out of the question.

“Our resolute Libyan people, the Libyan land is your own. Those who try to take it from you now, they are intruders, they are mercenaries, they are stray dogs. They are trying to seize our ancestral land from you but this is impossible. “We will not leave our ancestral land,” Gaddafi said. “The youths are now ready to escalate the resistance against the rats in Tripoli and to finish off the mercenaries.”

A Libyan military convoy which French and local military sources said entered neighboring Niger across the desert this week has stirred speculation that he might be about to flee.

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