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Rebels to seek return of Gaddafi family from Algeria
TRIPOLI - Libyas de facto government considers Algerias sheltering of members of Muammar Gaddafis family an act of aggression and will seek their extradition, a National Transitional Council spokesman said on Monday.We have promised to provide a just trial to all those criminals and therefore we consider this an act of aggression, spokesman Mahmoud Shamman told Reuters. We are warning anybody not to shelter Gaddafi and his sons. We are going after them in any place to find them and arrest them." Algerias Foreign Ministry said Gaddafis wife Safia, his daughter Aisha and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed had entered Algeria on Monday morning. Their arrival was reported to the United Nations and the Libyan rebel authorities, the state Algeria Press Service (APS) reported, citing the ministry. We consider what Algeria did as an act of aggression against the ambitions of the Libyan people, Shamman said. We will take the necessary measures in light of this. We will ask for their extradition. Algeria is the only one of Libyas north African neighbours which has yet to recognise the National Transitional Council, now Libyas de facto government, after Gaddafis compound in Tripoli was overrun by rebels last week and he went into hiding. Posted by: Steve White 2011-08-30 |
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