Libya: Son of Gadhafi to be tried at home, not by ICC

Associated Press

ZINTAN, Libya

Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who also is wanted by the court.

In one of several emerging complications, however, the former rebel faction that captured Seif al-Islam Gadhafi a day earlier is refusing to deliver him to national authorities in Tripoli, raising concern over whether he will get a proper trial and demonstrating the interim leaders’ weak hold over their fractured nation.

In the capital, Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam said ex-Intelligence Minister Abdullah al-Senoussi was captured alive Sunday by revolutionary fighters from a southern region called Fazan, not far from where Gadhafi’s son was seized Saturday while trying to flee to neighboring Niger.

Though they are wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Libya likely will seek to try both men at home.