Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya, a source in Libya confirms to Fox News.
Saif al-Islam was captured along with two of his aides who were trying to smuggle him out of the country, a Libyan militia commander said Saturday.
The Libyan government is working to move Saif al-Islam to the Libyan town of Zintan.
A spokesman for the Libyan fighters who captured him said Saif al-Islam was detained about 30 miles west of the town of Obari with two aides as he was trying to flee to neighboring Niger, but the country’s acting justice minister later said the convoy’s destination was not confirmed.
The International Criminal Court had charged Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam and Libya’s former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi with crimes against humanity for the brutal crackdown on dissent as the uprising against the regime began in mid-February and escalated into a civil war. Saif al-Islam’s capture leaves only al-Senoussi at large.
Libyan TV posted a photo purportedly of Saif al-Islam in custody. He is sitting by a bed and holding up three bandaged fingers as a guard looks on.
Mohammed al-Alagi, the National Transitional Council’s justice minister, told The Associated Press that Saif al-Islam was detained deep in Libya’s desert Friday night by revolutionary forces from the mountain town of Zintan who had been tracking him for days.
Saif al-Islam was being held in Zintan but would be transported to Tripoli soon, according to al-Alagi.
A spokesman for the Zintan brigades, Bashir al-Tlayeb, who first announced the capture at a press conference in Tripoli, said the NTC, which took over governing the country after Qaddafi was ousted, would decide where Saif al-Islam would be tried.
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shik a gruz to your dad!
If the new gov’t hopes to have any respectability, credibility and legitimacy in the world opinion they should try him in court with a jury and an attorney like any democracy. His father’s brutal lynching can be excused as being during a chaotic time, but in this case anything less than civility will portray them as barbarians and a precursor to another totalitarian gov’t.