Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France flew to Tripoli, Libya, on Thursday, pledging continued military, political and economic support for the country’s new leaders, including help in tracking down the fugitive Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The journey was the first to the capital by Western leaders since Colonel Qaddafi lost control ...
Muammar Qaddafi supporters and forces of Libya's new leaders traded deadly rocket fire Friday in skirmishes that could be a prelude to all-out fighting over one of the ousted despot's last remaining strongholds. Also Friday, Interpol said it has issued its top most-wanted alert for the arrest of Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the country's ...
Interpol has issued a red notice - its highest arrest alert - for Muammar Gaddafi as the hunt for the former Libyan leader intensifies. The France-based international police organisation said it had issued the notice in collaboration with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) where Gaddafi is accused of crimes against ...
Fathi Baja, head of political affairs for the National Transitional Council, said Gaddafi was waiting for an opoprtunity to slip across the desert frontier. "We're asking every country not to accept him. We want these people for justice," he said. "He's looking for a chance to leave." Meanwhile Mohamed Annacko, a Niger minister, said they were expecting ...
DOCUMENTS found at the abandoned office of Libya's former spymaster appear to provide new details of close relations between US and British intelligence and the Libyan intelligence agency. Most notably, the documents suggest the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya, despite that country's reputation for torture. While it has been known ...
The CIA worked closely with Muammar Qaddafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the AP, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's new rulers. The CIA was among a number of foreign intelligence services that worked with Libya's agencies, according to documents ...
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