The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo today asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi would face charges of “crimes against humanity.”
The move was publicly opposed by a number of people, but the most interesting was the National Transitional Council in Benghazi, the head of the rebel effort to oust Gadhafi from power.
The group says that it opposes any effort to extradite Gadhafi and instead wants him to be captured and tried domestically. The ICC is also seeking warrants for Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam and brother-in-law Abdullah al-Sanousi.
The ICC was charged to investigate top Libyan officials by the UN Security Council in late February. Though the resolution encouraged moves against government officials, the US insisted that it grant broad immunity to mercenaries fighting on the side of the Gadhafi regime.
Why is this man Luis Moreno-Ocampo not asking the ICC judge for war crime against George W. Bush and Tony Blair.., or for that mater Hennery Kissinger.., or for that matter Dick Cheney.., or for that matter Donald Rumsfeled.., or for that matter Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright.., or for that matter………….
Ocamp is not asking for arrest warrants for any of the people you mentioned because nobody has referred their cases to the ICC.
As you seem to feel strongly about it, why don't you submit information and evidence about crimes you think they've committed to the ICC. If they get enough to warrant investigation, they will investigate.
Or are you just an at-home moaner who'll moan but take no action to get what you say you want?
I think they have been referred to the ICC, the US just does not recognize it as having any sort of jurisdiction over supposed US crimes against humanity, you know the kind we've been engaged in almost regularly since 1991. That's why people like Kissinger or GW Bush have to be careful where they travel.