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Qaddafi’s Son Planning to Surrender?
From FOXNews.com | Associated Press
AMSTERDAM – Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the fugitive son of Libya’s toppled leader, told the InternationalCriminal Court he is innocent of alleged crimes against humanity, the court prosecutor said on Saturday in the Chinese capital, Reuters reports.
The court, based in The Hague, has said it made informal contact with Saif al-Islam, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, and is seeking to arrest him and bring him to trial on the charges stemming from Libya’s civil war.
The International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters the contacts were through intermediaries, and Saif al-Islam maintained his innocence and wanted to understand what could happen to him if cleared of charges.
“There are some people connected with him that are in touch with people connected with us, so we have no direct relation, it’s through intermediaries,” Moreno-Ocampo said in a brief interview after arriving in Beijing, where he is attending a law conference.
“But we trust very much the person who is in touch for our side. He says he is innocent, he will prove he is innocent, and then he is interested in the consequence after that.
The 39-year-old was reported to be heading through the desert to Mali, where the former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi fled Wednesday.
