The Tripoli Post
The Zintan rebels who announced the capture of former Libyan leader's son Seif al-Islam Saturday, said he was preparing to escape to Niger on the southern Libyan borders when he was caught preparing to escape to Niger.
According to one of the rebels who participated in the capture of Seif near Ubari city in southern Libya, Seif was in one of two SUV cars and he did not put up a fight when he realised he was surrounded.
Seif is now being transferred to Zintan city on the Western Mountains about 800 km north of the place where was captured before he is surrendered to the Libyan central government, .
Seif was said to be in good health. He was reported captured with two aides trying to smuggle him out to neighbouring Niger. The National Transitional Council (NTC) has said they will provide video confirmation of Seif al-Islam’s capture in the coming hours.
Wisam Deghali, member of the Khalid Ben Al-Walid brigade of the Aboubaker Sidiq Battalion that belonged to Zintan revolutionary forces, said Seif was in good health and he was treated well by the revolutionaries.
Zintan rebels are well known among Libyans by being always humanely treating the arrested and captured Al Qathafi soldiers and supporters.
Deghali said Seif left Sirte in the direction of the southern borders where he was captured. He said he could have been in Ben Walid then went to Sirte then to the south.
He did not say when Sief arrived in the area where he was captured or for how long he had been hiding there.
Wisam Deghali, member of the Khalid Ben Al-Walid brigade of the Aboubaker Sidiq Battalion that belonged to Zintan revolutionary forces, said Seif was in good health and he was treated well by the revolutionaries.
Zintan rebels are well known among Libyans by being always humanely treating the arrested and captured Al Qathafi soldiers and supporters.
Deghali said Seif left Sirte in the direction of the southern borders where he was captured. He said he could have been in Ben Walid then went to Sirte then to the south.
He did not say when did Sief arrive the area where he was captured or for how long he kept in hiding there.
The capture of Seif will bring further stability to Libya and will also expose the extent of the atrocities committed by him, his dead father and his brothers.
Seif also has full knowledge of Libyan huge funds and investments outside Libya as well as secret bank accounts of his family and his corrupt Libyan assistants.
According to Bashir Thuaaileb, the commander of the Jihad Battalion which also belongs to the Zintan revolutionary forces, Zintan rebels have been protecting the southern parts of Libya for many months, ever and since they concluded the liberation of Tripoli in August 23..
Thuaaileb said Zentan forces were continuously combing the vast desert areas near Chad, Niger and Algerian borders with Libya for potential highly important Al Qathafi regime personalities who might be in hiding there or on their way to cross the borders.
Th Zintan rebels spokesmen confirmed that Abdullah Sanusi, the intelligence chief in the Al Qathafi regime and also a wanted fugitive by ICC, was not with Seif during the latter's arrest.
Last month, Seif, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity told the ICC that he is innocent of these charges. The court, based in The Hague, is seeking his arrest on charges relating to Libya's civil war.
The ICC had charged Muammar Al Qathafi, Seif al-Islam, and Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi with crimes against humanity for the bombing and shooting of civilian protesters in February.
Seif, born in 1972, and the eldest of seven children of Muammar and Safiya, fled Libya after his father was captured by forces loyal to Libya's new rulers and killed outside his hometown of Sirte.
Libyan officials are reported to be resisting attempts to bring Seif before the international criminal court, claiming he should instead face justice at home. He staunchly backed his father in the brutal crackdown on rebels in the regime's final days.
Saif had gone underground after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces
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