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| Rebels to seek return of Gaddafi family from Algeria |
| 2011-08-30 |
| TRIPOLI - Libya’s de facto government considers Algeria’s sheltering of members of Muammar Gaddafi’s 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." Algeria’s Foreign Ministry said Gaddafi’s 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 Libya’s north African neighbours which has yet to recognise the National Transitional Council, now Libya’s de facto government, after Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli was overrun by rebels last week and he went into hiding. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 “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.” They haven't even set up camp and they're already threatening the neighbors. Damn...if that doesn't prove they deserve to sit with the Arab League - nothing will. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2011-08-30 10:10 |