As Libyan rebels took Tripoli last night from loyalists to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the International Criminal Court says it is talking to the rebels about transferring Gadhafi’s son and heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, to the Hague to face war crimes charges.
After months of rebel uprisings and NATO air assaults on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in Libya, rebel forces reached a major breakthrough this weekend. Advancing to just seventeen miles outside Tripoli, the rebels pushed through the city’s outer defense lines, flooded into the capital and battled with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi loyalists last night. The rebels captured two of Gadhafi’s […]
The International Criminal Court decided this morning to issue a warrant for the arrests of Col. Muammar Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Gadhafi’s intelligence chief, on charges of crimes against humanity. It has been 100 days since NATO began air strikes against Libya and Col. Muammar Gadhafi’s forces. David Mack, a scholar at […]