News of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi crossing of the Niger

Image gathering Abdullah Sanusi (right) and the late Colonel Libyan Saif al-Islam (Al-Jazeera - Archive)

Said a senior official of the Libyan Transitional National Council, told Reuters that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, required by the ICC through the Libyan border to Niger.
The unnamed official, who told Reuters that Saif al-Islam was in contact with Mali and South Africa and with other neighboring countries to regulate the exit did not get a confirmation yet, still waiting.
According to Reuters, the Saif al-Islam, son of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is trying to give himself up out of fear for his life if he was arrested in Libya, but the official said he did not find a way yet to do so.
On the other hand, was quoted by The Associated Press to a president's advisers Nigerian saying that the President of the former Libyan intelligence Abdullah Sanusi arrived to Mali after that through the territory of Niger, where he hid for several days in the desert north of the country, and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, in his way is the other to Mali.

The agency said the Chancellor - who did not want to be named, the sensitivity of the matter - said that Sanusi, required by the International Police (Interpol), financial income late Wednesday night through the Kidal region adjacent to the Niger. She said he was protected unit consisting of about 12 people arrived in a convoy led by men from the Malian Tuareg. The consultant added that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the other is on the way to Mali across the dividing line between Algeria and Mali.

The Chancellor, a senior Tuareg tribesmen that
Was strongly supports the late Colonel and remained faithful to him despite the official position of the Government of Niger in support of the rebels of Libya, Saif al-Islam in Mali is the way to the other. He is currently between Niger and Algeria, and shall protect the Touareg is the Sanusi, and they chose to stay in the desert.

The agency said that the men of the Tuareg in Agadez met Thursday to discuss the potential conflict because of greater access Libyan aide to the late Colonel in the light of the commitment of the Government of Niger to extradite any person wanted by the International Criminal Court.
The International Tribunal issued last June notes the arrest of Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam al-Sanusi and crimes against humanity, after the UN Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the court last February.
It was about 30 loyalists of the late Colonel system, including his son, Saadi, had fled to Niger in September / September last, but was arrested by the government there and imposed house arrest.
In Mali, said Director of State Security Hildbert Traore he could not confirm the entry Sanusi territory of Mali, P "Until now we could not locate the Sanusi, whether in our territory or other territories." Traore said that people like Sanusi often keen to contact the State authorities concerned before entering it, "but he has not contacted us to say that he is coming."
And the International Criminal Court said Wednesday it could not confirm that Saif al-Islam, son of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Sanusi intend to surrender to the court.
Said court spokesman Fadi Al-Abdullah "We have no confirmation on this matter, now trying to contact the Libyan Transitional National Council for more information."
Earlier Wednesday, said a senior military official in the Council that Saif al-Islam al-Sanusi and propose a surrender to the tribunal in The Hague.
Said Abdul Majeed Mliqth told Reuters from Libya said they proposed a way to deliver themselves to the court in The Hague.
Mliqth said they felt that they would not be immune to the survival in Libya or Algeria, or went to Niger, which resorted to them already members of the family of Colonel al-Libi.

Source: Associated Press

Contacts between the "criminal" and Saif al-Islam Ibn Muammar Gaddafi

Picture of Saif al-Islam last month in an undisclosed location in Libya (Reuters)

Detection of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Friday for informal talks with Saif al-Islam, son of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to surrender himself to the court.
Ocampo stressed in an interview with CNN that the U.S., there are informal talks through intermediaries on Saif al-Islam, without elaborating on the argument.

The prosecutor said in a statement issued by the court, "we know from the informal channels that there is a group of mercenaries on Saif al-Islam was transferred to the (state) of an African is not a member of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."

He added that the Public Prosecutor's Office was investigating the possibility of intercepting any aircraft within the airspace of a Member State to arrest him.

Ocampo pointed out that "Saif al-Islam - if they surrendered - Vsimta their rights and will remain innocent until proven guilty," adding that the case against him will be often.
A senior military official said Wednesday Transitional Council that Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah Sanusi fugitives themselves endanger the delivery of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Said Abdul Majeed Mliqth then told Reuters from Libya, they propose a way to deliver themselves to the Court in The Hague.

Saif al-Islam was a fugitive since the invasion of forces loyal to the Transitional Council in the Libyan city of Sirte on the twentieth of this month, where he killed his father and his brother Muammar Mu'tasim.

The International Police (Interpol) has issued on September 8 / September last arrest warrant against a red Saif al-Islam and his father and former CIA Director Sanusi, at the request of the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity.

Source: Agencies
 

Penalty for cafe bomber in Morocco

The cafe, which was targeted bombing on April 28 / April (French)

A Moroccan court on Friday sentenced to death just the Ottoman accused of bombing a cafe in Marrakech in April / last April that killed 17, mostly tourists.

The Court of terrorism in Sale near the capital Rabat on the defendant to life imprisonment, while the issued sentences ranging between two and four years against seven other defendants.

The bombing, which occurred on April 28 / April aimed at the center of Marrakech cafe Argana, which is an attractive area for tourists to enjoy its palaces and historic places.

According to the Moroccan Interior Ministry, the mastermind of the attack just the Ottoman (25 years) entered the cafe posing as a customer and planting bag containing bombs and then left the place and was detonated by remote control.

The lawyer insisted that his client is innocent Ottomans and he admitted so under duress.

These provisions have raised the resentment of the people who mocked the victims of the prison sentences of two or four years, said Sombrit that killed her daughter in the bombing, "the world will laugh at Aadaltkm, Morocco has betrayed us."

It is noteworthy that Morocco did not resort to the death penalty since 1992, and Marrakesh is the worst bombing attack "terrorist" is located in the Kingdom since the Casablanca bombings in 2003 carried out by 12 people blow themselves up and killed 33 civilians.

Source: Agencies
 

New arrests of protesters in America

Protesters camped in several U.S. cities, yards (French - Archive)


U.S. police arrested earlier on Friday in San Diego, California, more than sixty activists of the "occupied the Wall Street" and evacuated camps were staging a sit-in whichsupporters of the movement.


He said city police spokesman David Stafford said police arrested 51 people who werestaging a protest in front of the municipality of San Diego three weeks ago, and arrested11 others in a nearby park.


The movement began, "occupied the Wall Street" since the September / September lastcontinuous protests in several U.S. cities against what it calls "the greed of big business,"and calls the movement for social justice, she says, very few controlled the wealth ofAmericans.


The process of evacuation of the protesters in San Diego after three days of clashesbetween police and activists of the movement itself in Oakland near San Francisco,wounding one person seriously injured.


And San Diego police confirmed they had received in the past three weeks, "severalcomplaints" about the camp, condemning the "conditions of poor sanitation and the spread of the drug and the accumulation of waste."

Supporters of "occupied the Wall Street" are preparing for protests winter (French - Archive)

Ready for the winterIn the meantime, reports that supporters of "occupied the Wall Street" in the entire United States are preparing for winter conditions, where they began collecting - through donations - clothes, blankets and mattresses appropriate to sit in the cold season.

The activists also seeks to provide a mobile and a small family tents suitable for winter, which amount to which the degrees of temperature in some cities very low levels.

And different ways to deal with U.S. authorities to the protests of "occupied the Wall Street", where allowed to vary between Hamas militants sit and protest, and the prevention and disperse the sit-ins by force and arrest militants.

Fmdh example, New York Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the protesters at Memorial Park in the city center where they can stay as much as they please as long as they respect the law, adding that the responsibility of maintaining the safety of protesters and protect their rights.

However, police intervened against the protesters in several cities, including Oakland, California, Atlanta and San Diego and Nashville, Tennessee, and these interventions have resulted in the injury and the arrest of hundreds of activists.

In the past week alone has been arrested 39 activists in Nashville, and was released later, in San Diego yesterday arrested more than sixty people, and one hundred protesters were arrested in Auckland earlier.

             Source: Agencies

Internationalist approach to the removal of the weapons Gaddafi

Stockpiles of weapons in Libya had been looted (Reuters - Archive)


Diplomats at the United Nations said yesterday that the Security Council may make a decision today on the project, which calls for the transitional authorities in Libya to take action to get rid of the huge stockpiles of weapons collected by the late Libyan ColonelMuammar Gaddafi.

And Russia submitted a draft resolution urging the new Libyan authorities to take "all necessary steps to prevent the spread of all weapons and related materials of all kinds."

The Council considered the draft resolution on Thursday calling for Tripoli to protect themissiles land - air Carried on the shoulder and ammunition and all kinds of weapons.

Warning
The draft resolution also warns that the missiles land - atmosphere "could support terrorist activities, including the activities of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb."

According to the draft resolution should be on Tripoli to cooperate closely with theOrganization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, "in order to destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons."

The President of the United Nations Mission to Libya Ian Martin warned the Security Council last Wednesday of the looting of the huge stockpiles of rockets during the conflictthat took place between the rebels and the forces of Gaddafi.

He added that the air strikes launched by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) destroyed thousands of rockets, but many of them looted, along with some ammunition and mines.
He pointed out that the Qaddafi regime's largest collection of well known stocks of missiles, pointing out that there is a need for international organizations immediately searched hundreds of sites suspected weapons caches.
Martin said before the Security Council in New York that "large quantities of stocks of ammunition and unexploded ordinance after the Sirte and Bani Walid need immediate attention."
He also pointed out that it was storing weapons in hospitals, schools and residential neighborhoods in the capital, Tripoli, after being carried by Qaddafi's troops there to avoid NATO air raids.
The commander of the joint air operations Marshal British Suart Bish on Thursday that his country is determined to prevent the missing weapons from stockpiles Muammar Gaddafi from falling into the wrong hands.
He pointed out that the United Kingdom stands together with experts from the United States and the Interim Authority in Libya in the search for missiles and other weapons left behind by the Qadhafi regime.
The UK government said earlier this week that a team of British experts to help deal with the issue of surface - atmosphere and small arms that have disappeared from stockpiles of weapons.
It is believed that Libya had owned about 20 thousand of these missiles in its arsenal before the revolution, which began in March / March.
There are strong fears that thousands of them became lost, and can end up in the hands of "terrorists."
 Source: Agencies

Algeria refused to hand over Gaddafi's family

A composite picture of the Sons of Gaddafi left to right: Mohammed and Aisha Hannibal (Jazeera)

The Algerian government has decided not to extradite the Libyan family of the murdered Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya or any other country, she will not negotiate on their situation only with the United Nations, according to the newspaper Le Soir d'Algerie Algeria, citing an unnamed source familiar with.
The newspaper said, quoting a source that Algeria does not intend at all to the delivery of family-Gaddafi of Libya or the other. The source pointed out that "Algeria has accepted to receive members of the Gaddafi family for humanitarian reasons only, and nothing has changed in this regard, in particular, and that all the world saw how he had killed Gaddafi's brutal way last Thursday."
The source stressed that "Algeria is a sovereign and has a tradition and we can not endanger the lives of people who are under our protection at risk, it is a matter of honor."
He said that Algeria since the first day moved in the framework of legitimacy through the report to the Secretary General of the United Nations and UN Security Council and the Transitional National Assembly to receive the Libyan Qadhafi family. The source said that Gaddafi's family is now in the establishment of confidentiality and under strict protection.
This position comes in response to demand in the Executive Office of the President of the Transitional National Assembly, Mahmoud Jibril, Algeria, Libya handed over Gaddafi's family.
Algeria has received on August 29 / August Gaddafi's wife Safiya and his daughter, Aisha, and his two sons Mohammed and Hannibal with their children.

Source: UPI

Floods threaten North Bangkok

Flood waters inundated some of the main streets north of Bangkok (French)
Thai authorities have warned a number of neighborhoods north of the capital Bangkok, the likelihood of flooding and access to their areas and urged residents to prepare for the worst, including the evacuation of homes with more indicators rising flood waters.
 Has confirmed the official sources and media in Thailand on Monday that the level of flood waters reached up concern within a kilometer from the Temple of the "Grand Palace" in the famous city of Bangkok old since Sunday after a high level of the Chao Phraya River - which runs the heart of the capital, densely populated - to the part top of the barriers.
 The Prime Minister has expressed Aangluck Hinaoatr Sunday, told media concern about the widespread flooding in regions XI and Don Muang north of Bangkok, warning that the level of flooding could rise in some areas to about one meter.
 She added that it is not possible to predict how long the water will stay in Bangkok, but stressed that the competent authorities will work to keep the fast transport routes open, and to protect drinking water systems, sewage and power plants and sensitive facilities.
 

The risk of crocodilesIn the north of Bangkok, Nonthaburi Province, authorities have warned residents to travel at night after finding a 2.5-meter-long crocodile in the area Sunday, and is poised deputy in the parliament and the presence of crocodiles after another flooded my farm crocodiles crocodile Thoian 20.
It also flooded the University, "Thammasat" in the northern suburbs of Bangkok, and rose about 70 centimeters, has reached a height in the inner part of the campus - which uses the shelter - to about 20 centimeters, which hampered rescue efforts and provide assistance to the center, which needs more food and drinking water for more than 3,500 people were evacuated by the addition of 600 employees working in it.

 It is noteworthy that the measures taken by the authorities to divert flood waters to the Gulf of Thailand succeeded in averting an imminent threat to Bangkok, but the likelihood of heavy rainfall in the channels already in place is full of large areas of the north of the capital of eight million people under threat again.
 The increasing health problems and was taken by the Minister of Health of Thailand and Atia Bourinasiri on Saturday saying that he had been reported 720 thousand medical condition associated with flooding flooding to parts of the country, were treated about one hundred thousand people were nervous.
 Damage and lossesAnd damaged more than two and a half a million people by the floods could increase this number significantly became apparent extent of the damage in the north of Bangkok, noting that more than 40 of the 78 provinces in Thailand have been severely damaged, including seven industrial areas was staffed by about 400 thousand workers flooded that stretched to nearly a third of the country.
 The floods killed 356 people, the displacement of 113 thousand people at least were transferred to more than 1700 Center for temporary shelter, while The Ministry of Labour to be about 650 thousand workers in the industry are no resource because of the damage to the industrial zones in flooded areas .
 The Thai Central Bank estimated the economic value of damages nearly two billion dollars, ie 0.6% of gross domestic product and in a report submitted to the government at a previous meeting held to assess the repercussions of the disaster that is the worst in the history of Thailand since fifty years.

 Citizens have what they could from their personal belongings after leaving their homes in northern Bangkok (French)


Source: Agencies

French military intervention in Somalia

Shabaab fighters engaged in a battle open with Kenyan forces (Al-Jazeera - Archive)



Kenya revealed that the Western forces - are likely to be French - launched attacks onpositions of the Young Mujahideen Movement in Somalia, the first Western military intervention in this country for nearly two decades.



The Kenyan army in a statement that the French navy bombed Saturday night near thetown of Kodai-Shabaab stronghold of Kismayo in the south.



For his part, said military spokesman said a Kenyan partners, Western Kenya - likely to be the United States or France - was behind the air strikes took place during the last daysand led to the deaths of a number of al-Shabaab militants in Somalia.



One diplomat said - Nairobi-based to him - last week that France launched military attacksin Somalia, which was denied by French officials in Paris, while not suspended and news agencies and the French press on this development in the field.



He denied two senior U.S. officials in Washington on Sunday that U.S. military forces orthe CIA was involved in launching air strikes in Somalia in recent days.



He said one of officials say that the Kenyan troops managed to disperse the militants and leaders of the movement of young people, making them "easy targets".

Kismayo

The News reports that the fighters are believed to be Kenyan military launched air strikeson the violent port city of Kismayo after the Sunday afternoon, two unmanned targetpopulation located between the port of Kismayo and the international petroleum reservoirsprecedent.


Did not result in any damage to the aerial bombardment of human existence and notcivilians or fighters during the attack, the first since the control of the Mujahideen Youth Movement of Kismayo in August / August 2008.


The latest aerial bombardment of civilians in shock, while the Somali observers saw that a strong indicator of escalating clashes between the Kenyan government and the movement of young people.


It is noteworthy that the Kenyan air launched during the past two weeks, heavy shelling of cities and villages located in the state of Lower Juba, including Qoghani and Tapto and Ras Kamboni.


The Kenyan government has admitted that its troops incursion deep into Somali territory, a distance of 100 km to fight Shabaab.


On the other hand threatened to move the battle to a depth of Kenya in response to theforces seized the Kenyan Somali cities strategy.


Source: Island Press The Associated Press U.S.

Transitional decide Gaddafi hand over the body to his family

Gaddafi's body will be returned to the cooling unit in the market, which was the old Misurata before autopsy (French)
He said the Transitional National Assembly that he will hand over the body of the Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to his relatives. Reuters quoted a doctor involved in the autopsy that his death was caused by a bullet. Despite the passage of three days for the killing of Gaddafi, the Libyan still celebrate the event.
The doctor added that the autopsy report will be submitted to the Attorney General, stressing that all matters relating to the nature of death is hidden and will not reveal anything.
This came after forensic specialists participated in the autopsy Gaddafi, who was killed last Thursday to identify the cause of death. And carried out the autopsy at the morgue in the capital city of Misurata east of Tripoli.
Local officials said that Gaddafi's body will be returned now to the refrigeration unit in the old market, Misurata, which were presented to the public body with his son Mu'tasim last few days.
The director of the Al Jazeera office in Tripoli, Abdel-Azim Mohammed has stated time prior to the International Criminal demanded for its part, not to bury the body of Gaddafi until found by a medical team from the court to make sure they belong to Colonel in order to close the case of Gaddafi because he was required to have.
And in the bequest attributed to him could not be verified, Gaddafi recommended to bury his body in a cemetery I walked next to his family and urged the continuation of the resistance after him.


The celebrations were organized in the popular city of Misurata Freedom Square to express their joy at the end of the era of the rule of the Colonel who say their rule with iron and fire.
At the same time the rebels held the city of Misurata some five hundred of al-Gaddafi, captured during the fighting. The rebels continue their search for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.

Ceremonies in Benghazi
On the other hand thousands of rebels returned to the city of Benghazi after participating in the resolution of the Battle of Sirte, which represented the last stronghold of al-Qadhafi.And received the people of Benghazi columns cars rebels shouting and waving flags and flowers, and the children spray perfumed water on the crowd.

The number of the rebels for their happiness the end of the fighting and allow them toreturn to their normal lives, and they said they had agreed to assemble the weapon.

This came at a time where violent protests of the wounded rebels, who accuse the National Council of the slowdown in the treatment. President of the Council has pledged toMustafa Abdul Jalil that the wounded receive a special attention.


Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies

Attributed the commandment of Gaddafi calls for burial in Sirte

Gaddafi in the morgue Misurata (Al-Jazeera)
Recommended that the Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the late Will attributed to him could not confirm that figure, his body was buried in a cemetery I walked next to his family and urged the continuation of the resistance after him.
The site said "Seven Days News" news, the pro-Gaddafi yet on Facebook, it took over the commandment of Gaddafi by on October 17 / October in his last days in Sirte on the safe side to him and handed it to three people, one of whom died The last in captivity and survived the third.
The site that Gaddafi began his will Quranic verse mentioned certificates and recommended not to be washed and buried in accordance with teachings of Islamic law in his clothes, which die in the tomb of Sirte "next to the national and my family." And demanded that his family deal, "especially its women and children treated well."
He called Gaddafi, who was killed after his arrest in the city of Sirte on Thursday in his will, the Libyan people to preserve the "identity and their achievements, history and image of his ancestors and heroes supervisor, and not recognizing the sacrifices of Ahrarh and Okhiarh .. and continue to resist any foreign aggression suffered by the Libyan Now or tomorrow and always. "
As Gaddafi said that he must "trust the Liberals in the Libyan and the world we can trade our cause and get a personal life safe and stable and we've got many offers, but we chose to be in confrontation and duty and honor, and even if you do not win soon, we will give a lesson win by generations to come, because the choice of home is a home tournament and the sale of the betrayal is the history will not be able to write other no matter how they tried to forge. "
Gaddafi concluded the commandment against him, saying that "a salami to my family one by one and to the public and to all the faithful of the world who have supported us, even if their hearts."

Source: German