USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Niger Will Allow Libya’s Transitional Government to Question Saadi Qaddafi

These writers and editors excel in yellow, artistic journalism, sounding the Western media propaganda  by conveniently omitting the salient fact that Niger emphasized that there is no possibility of Niger handing over Saadi Ghaddafi to the NTC.  The article artfully tries to project a false idea of Niger capitulating.

Now, if common sense has a place in logic, what is the purpose questioning a hostile party that you have no control over? In deed, a spectacle can be discerned - rebels with blood on their hands, having butchered black Africans in Libya, crossing over to Niger to question anyone.

 

The rebels have declared that they cannot form a government until they win over the country. Can anyone with straight face tell precisely how many percentage of Libya they actually control? Now, a listed terrorist (by US and UK) is the play maker in Tripoli. Such is the low and expedient farce that characterizes this modern day colonial exploitation. 

Hopefully, these jaundiced journalists have a modicum of public morals to explain why NATO and the rebels see it fit to be carpeting Sirte and Bani Walid with bombs, killing children,  destroying homes and displacing more civilians  when there is no pro-Gaddafi  threat to residents, which was the ruse for NATO's showcase intervention in Libya.

How is it possible to liberate a place when the citizens and residents are opposed to the presence of the self-styled liberators?

 

Please, Antony Sguazzin  and Andrew Barden, as editors of this claptrap, like the rest of  your compromised peers feeding junk to the public, take an A for decoy in journalism.

 

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Niger Will Allow Libya's Transitional Government to Question Saadi Qaddafi

 

By Djibril Saidou and Caroline Alexander - Oct 3, 2011 5:38 AM ET

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Niger's Justice Minister Marou Amadou

Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images

Niger's Justice Minister Marou Amadou.

Niger's Justice Minister Marou Amadou. Photographer: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images

Niger will allow the transitional government in Libya to interrogate Saadi Qaddafi, who fled to the capital Niamey after his father Muammar Qaddafi lost control of Tripoli and is wanted by Libyan officials on suspicion of"armed intimidation."

Niger recognizes the National Transitional Council as the only legitimate authority in Libya and its members can "come freely" to Niger, Justice Minister Marou Amadou was quoted as saying today by Niamey-based state radio station Voix du Sahel.

At least 32 Libyans, including three generals, have sought refuge in neighboring Niger in the weeks after NTC forces took control of the capital, Tripoli, at the end of August. Saadi Qaddafi, 38, was welcomed in Niger for "humanitarian reasons,"Amadou said.

Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for him on Sept. 29 at the request of the NTC for allegedly"misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation" when he headed the Libyan Football Federation. The Paris-based police group said he should be located, arrested and handed over to Libyan authorities.

The NTC is seeking to round up former officials to try them in Libya. Interpol issued so-called red notices for Muammar Qaddafi, his apparent heir and son Saif al-Islam and former military intelligence director Abdullah al-Senussi at the request of the International Criminal Court on Sept. 9 for alleged crimes against humanity.

Travel Ban

The council's drive to complete the liberation of the country is being hampered by political infighting and the doggedness of Qaddafi's supporters in their last two strongholds of Bani Walid and Sirte. NTC officials say a new government to see Libya through to elections will only be unveiled once the entire country under their control.

Saadi Qaddafi is also subject to a United Nations travel ban and assets freeze imposed in March because he was a commander of military units allegedly involved in the repression of demonstrations during Libya's uprising.

Interpol's decision to issue the red notice "is a clear political decision to recognize the de jure authority of the National Transitional Council taken without appropriate regard to the current absence of a functioning, effective and fair system of justice in Libya," Nick Kaufman, who said he is acting as Saadi's lawyer, wrote in an e-mailed statement today.

Saadi Qaddafi "strenuously denies" the charges made against him, according to the statement, and "continues to call on all sides to seek a negotiated and peaceful resolution to the present conflict."