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| Niger Hands over Gadhafi Aide Accused of Stoking Unrest |
| 2014-02-15 |
| [An Nahar] Niger on Friday handed over to Libya slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... 's former chief of internal security Abdullah Mansur, the Libyan government announced. A government statement said Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... had given the authorities in Niamey evidence implicating Mansur "in planning terrorist acts aimed at destabilizing Libya". It said Niamey decided that the former official "had violated commitments he had made" and had "not respected the conditions of his exile". The government in Tripoli said it guaranteed Mansur "every right to a fair trial that conforms to international conventions". It said he was now the responsibility of the prosecutor general and the justice system. Mansur had been a secretary and adviser to Qadaffy, as well as a media official under the veteran strongman who was killed by rebels after being tossed in 2011. It was during the rebellion that he rose to become Qadaffy's head of internal security. The government charges that Mansur is implicated in violence in southern Libya, where Qadaffy supporters briefly seized control of the region's main air base earlier this year. On February 5, Niger called for Western intervention to eradicate a growing threat from Islamist fighters who have established bases in southern Libya since Qadaffy's overthrow. The impoverished but mineral-rich former French colony bordering southern Libya has had to contend with numerous Islamist attacks and kidnappings, some of which have threatened the security of its uranium production. Other countries in addition to Niger have also handed over former Qadaffy-era officials. Mauritania surrendered Abdullah al-Senussi, his ex-head of intelligence, and Tunisia handed over his former prime minister, Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... i al-Mahmudi. Human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the conditions in which such former officials are held. Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Thursday urged Tripoli to allow Seif al-Islam, Qadaffy's son and one-time presumed heir, as well as others detained to have access to lawyers. |
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