Officials from Libya’s National Transitional Council are reporting that Moammar Gadhafi’s son and former heir apparent Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is in the process of negotiating on turning himself over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague.
The ICC refused to confirm that any such thing was in progress, but NTC official Abdel Miegta said Saif as well as former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi were in talks on the details of turning themselves in.
The move, if confirmed, is the latest in a long line of shifts in Saif’s position, as he went from the dictator’s reform-minded son to a bearded would-be Islamist who was promising to turn Libya into Saudi Arabia and now is seeking a way out.
But many believe Saif’s influence over the country’s loyalist forces died in large measure with his father, and that he would not be in a position to lead an insurgency even if he had a mind to. Given the way the NTC has been treating its captives it isn’t surprising that he’s hoping to ride out the civil war in the Netherlands.
He better negotiate a way to surrender without letting NTC folk touch him or else he'll be butchered by our new friends.
This is simply delicious. I suspect that he is just as flaky as his dad and would point out more skeletons in the closet than NATO and other banksters would appreciate. Just to see the rats in DC squirm is worth the price of admission.
There's nothing "delicious" about human beings participating in/ being victimized by collective insanity. The rats in DC are enjoying a disgraceful distraction from their own more whitewashed barbarity.
It's called "irony". We have immoral robots pontificating daily to the peasantry about this outrage or another while dropping bombs and murdering at will. Why? Because THEY say so? To see them stew in the hypocritical juices of their own making is schadenfreude. Now would I wish this on the innocent? That's insane.
If the NTC are nationalistic and theirs was to free Libya from Ghadaf,let them use seif islams will to surrender and exonerate him all the allegations as a way of total reconciliation. Ghadifs family has suffered enough. Are NATO allies not people of good will like Muslims? Are members of NTC Muslims? Is exposing the body of a fellow human being a civilized way and an act of faith.
Let them come down Libyans by coaxing seif and other willing influential people among the ghadafs supports to join them and become carders who should take messages of total reconciliation, otherwise we are yet to see another Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan
Issa Kirarira
I think the courts might be more interested in what Abdullah al-Senussi has to say.