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| Libya 'Issues Summons' for Kadhafi's Ex-PM |
| 2011-09-29 |
| [An Nahar] Libya has issued a summons for Moammar Qadaffy's ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who decamped the country for neighboring Tunisia, the interim justice minister said Wednesday. "The prosecutor general has issued a summons for former Prime Minister Storied Baghdadi al-Mahmudi," the minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, told a news conference in Tripoli. Mahmudi, Libya's prime minister until the last days of Qadaffy's regime, was placed in long-term storage last week on Tunisia's southwestern border with Algeria. A Tunisian court swiftly sentenced him to six months in prison after finding him guilty of illegal entry, but that decision was overruled on Tuesday by a higher court following an appeal by his lawyers. Mahmudi's arrest was the second in Tunisia of a senior Libyan official since the fall of the regime run by Qadaffy, who has been on the run since Libyan rebels took the capital Tripoli on August 23. |
| Posted by:Fred |