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发帖数: 4825 | 1 Libyans Seize Qaddafi’s Son, the Last at Large
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/world/africa/gaddafi-son-capt
ZINTAN, Libya — Libyan militia fighters on Saturday captured Seif al-Islam
el-Qaddafi, the last fugitive son and onetime heir apparent of Col. Muammar
el-Qaddafi, setting off nationwide celebrations but also exposing a
potential power struggle between former-rebel factions over his handling.
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Mr. Qaddafi’s was captured near Awbari.
Militia leaders based in Zintan, a western mountain town and stronghold of
resistance to Colonel Qaddafi’s regime, said they captured Seif al-Islam
early Saturday in the southwestern desert near Awbari, along with a small
entourage.
But while transitional government leaders in the capital, Tripoli, promised
that Mr. Qaddafi would be closely guarded and turned over to the
International Criminal Court to be tried on war crimes charges, leaders in
Zintan insisted that they would not hand him over until a formal national
government was formed.
That process is in the works, but still at least a day or two away, raising
the possibility that Mr. Qaddafi could be a bargaining chip to ensure a
larger Zintani role in the new government. Such insistence on factional
power is at the heart of international concerns about Libya’s future. And
after Colonel Qaddafi’s capture and killing at the hands of militiamen a
month ago, his son’s case will be an important test of Libya’s commitment
to the rule of law.
On Saturday, the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he
would head to Libya in the next few days to discuss how and where Mr.
Qaddafi would be tried. “We are coordinating with the Justice Ministry to
ensure that any solution is in accordance with the law,” said the
prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Leaders in Zintan promised that they would protect Mr. Qaddafi and that
justice would take its course.
“We are arranging a very safe place for him,” said Mussa Grife, a member
of the Zintan revolutionary movement’s political committee. “The people of
Zintan want to leave a good impression for the world and treat Seif
according to human rights and according to Islamic values.”
Tellingly, the Transitional National Council’s prime minister, Abdel Rahim
el-Keeb, came to Zintan with an entourage of officials to celebrate the
capture.
“Congratulations to all Libya, all men, women and children,” he said at a
news conference here. “Now we can build a new Libya.”
Seemingly responding to concerns about Mr. Qaddafi’s safety, Mr. Keeb
emphasized that the government in Tripoli was in no rush to take direct
custody of Mr. Qaddafi and that it would let those in Zintan hold him.
“We trust their ability to take care of this,” he said. “They will keep
him in peace, and take care of him, unlike how he treated our people.”
In scenes of celebration outstripped only by news of Colonel Qaddafi’s
capture and death last month, Tripoli’s streets erupted in revelry at the
news that Mr. Qaddafi had been seized. Vehicles clogged intersections, horns
blaring, and militiamen shot their rifles into the sky. In Zintan,
thousands of people poured into the streets as fireworks and rocket and
gunfire broke out.
The capture eliminates perhaps the best hope that loyalists had of rallying
a new revolution around the remnants of the Qaddafi family. It also
represents a personal transformation that turned Seif al-Islam from the most
prominent advocate of changing his father’s Libya into one of the chief
architects of the regime’s deadly crackdown on dissent in its final days.
Mr. Grife said Zintan fighters had been following Mr. Qaddafi through the
desert using local sources for intelligence about his whereabouts in the
past few weeks. When they learned he and a small entourage would try to make
a break to leave the country, perhaps bound for Tunisia, they laid a trap
for him on Saturday morning along a valley road outside Awbari, an oasis
town.
When Zintan fighters blocked the caravan, Mr. Qaddafi broke from his vehicle
and was captured on foot. “They tried to fight,” Mr. Grife said. A few
shots were fired, but there were no reports of any wounded.
A reporter for Reuters was on the plane with Seif al-Islam as the fighters
flew him from Awbari to Zintan. The reporter said that although Mr. Qaddafi
appeared very frightened, he was in decent condition. He wore an
uncharacteristically heavy beard, and showed the reporter his heavily
bandaged right hand, which he said was wounded in a NATO airstrike about a
month ago. | R*******N
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