Further evidence that the powers occupying Libya do not wish the famous son of Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi, Sayf-al-Islam al-Qaddafi, to face a high-profile trial, due to the secrets it would expose.
Sayf-al-Islam as well as Libyan Jamahiriya intelligence head Sanussi, also “wanted” by the ICC but his whereabouts being somewhat of a mystery, know the secrets regarding huge sums of money paid to former French President Sarkozi and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and others.
The occupation NTC government in Libya, on orders from their paymasters who have occupied the country by proxy in order to secure the oil and water wealth of Libya, are demanding Sayf-al-Islam be tried in Libya.
With the absence of any rule of law, security and the world’s worst human rights record over the past year with tens of thousands incarcerated without trial and undergoing torture, the “trial” of Sayf-al-Islam would be a kangaroo court and achieve far less attention than one held by the ICC in The Hague.
The initial hope of murdering him failed after the Zintan people which have been holding him refused to hand him over to the occupational regime to have him murdered, and assured him they would let him have a fair trial and were responsible for his security.
The occupation regime still does not have possession of him. He is still being held by the Zintanis.
This situation however is desirable to the ICC controllers, who realize that they would not be able to give kangaroo justice away from the attention of many supporters of justice, if Sayf-al-Islam was to be tried in The Hague.
As they have already murdered another high profile figure, former Yugoslav Head of State Milosevic during his “trial” at the ICC in order to prevent embarrassing information from surfacing regarding western leaders, a repeat death of Sayf-al-Islam during any appearance at The Hague would drive a nail into the coffin of the ICC which has been unmasked as a biased set-up designed to prosecute only those that oppose the hegemony of western imperialism.
Another benefit of Sayf-al-Islam being held in Zintan with the occupation regime being able to claim they don’t have him in their position, and the ICC happily being unable to extract him, is that if he is held long enough and the situation in Libya becomes untenable, he can be wheeled out as a uniting figure respected on all sides, to solve the problems of Libya.
The latest revelations hitting Australian media are that the Australian woman sent to interview Sayf-al-Islam for the ICC, Melinda Taylor, and the ICC team were set up by the Libyans, and that this information was withheld by the Australian government which had despatched its Zionist Foreign Minister to Libya as well as other countries in the region where he did the bidding of his “new world order” paymasters.
Taylor had been silenced during the ordeal in which she was held for 26 days along with four other ICC colleagues, with the Australian government claiming it was acting in her best interests while basically giving the Libyan occupation regime a soft time and urging the ICC to apologize to Libya for “breach of protocol.”
However, while the above facts are all ignored by the Murdoch-Packer owned Australian “news media”, they have focused on the small details which have now surfaced, while ignoring the afore-mentioned big picture.
Even though Taylor was held in June, it is over a month later that some of the facts which were withheld from the public, include that the Libyan occupation authorities secretly filmed the meeting and planted a fake security guard, and that the paperwork alleged to be “secret messages” she was passing to Sayf was simply a statement to be signed by him if he wanted to be tried by the ICC at the Hague.
Submissions to the International Criminal Court – filed on Tuesday night July 31st by the ICC’s Office of the Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD), who are to be representing Sayf-al-Islam Qaddafi, also accuse Libyan authorities of using the detention of Ms Taylor and her four colleagues to “extract concessions from the ICC concerning the admissibility of the case”.
In the 92-page submission to the ICC from the OPCD, it reveals what happened on June 7, with the claims of national security breaches originating over a statement by Mr Gaddafi that he wanted to have his trial conducted in The Hague, not in Libya.
“When Mr Qaddafi attempted to sign this statement after reading it, the guard, who informed the ICC delegation through the interpreter that he was illiterate and did not understand English and that his sole purpose of being present was to ensure issues of physical security, confiscated the statement,” the defence says.
“The ‘guard’, who is actually Mr Ahmed Amer – a councillor who speaks several languages – was placed in the room to deliberately trick the delegation.
“He came back into the room and (in the presence of the ICC interpreter), started shouting that this statement was very dangerous, violated Libyan national security, and that the defence could not have it back.”
The unsigned statement from Mr Qaddafi says “truth is only possible in a fair and impartial trial” and that that can happen only if he is tried in The Hague.
“I am not afraid to die but if you execute me after such a trial you should just call it murder,” Mr Qaddafi’s statement says, addressing the ICC, since he is very knowledgeable about the Milosevic case having followed it and others with acute interest in his position as head of the Qaddafi Human Rights Foundation of Libya.
Mathaba has preserved this page from his web site, before it was taken down along with all other Libyan Jamahiriya sites by the occupation regime.
“The only way for Libya and the Libyan people to have justice is for the ICC to try this case in a fair, impartial and independent manner,” he was quoted as saying in a defence document submitted to the court.
“There will certainly be no justice in the case if the prosecution is based on evidence from torture.
“I am not afraid to die but if you execute me after such a trial you should just call it murder, and be done with it” he said.
He is also quoted in a document issued after the ICC lawyers visited him last month as saying “I would have liked to have been tried in Libya by Libyan judges under Libyan law in front of the Libyan people. There will also be no truth if witnesses are faced with possible life sentences for simply testifying in my favour.”
The submission goes on to say that the Libyan authorities have used the detention of the four ICC staff to obtain political advantage in the run-up to its national elections and attempted to “extract concessions from the ICC concerning the admissibility of the case”.
The court-appointed lawyers say the incident shows Mr Sayf Qaddafi will not receive a fair trial in Libya.
Ms Taylor said after her release that she believed it would be “impossible” for Saif to be tried in an independent and impartial manner in Libyan courts.
The ICC is divided with lawyers wanting to try Qaddafi at the ICC in The Hague, but with the masters of the ICC and its Chief Prosecutor, Brazilian national Ocampo, wanting to scupper any chances. Ocampo has also ensured that Sudan’s dictator front-man military General Omar Hassan Ahmed El-Bashir also does not face charges of genocide in The Hague.
Bashir was recently in Libya, a star guest of the occupation regime for several days on a high profile visit designed to bolster the islamist credibility of the regime, while the ICC did nothing to demand his arrest by Libya and hand-over.
SOURCE: mathaba
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