Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, was captured in the Libyan dessert Saturday and now is being held awaiting a war crimes tribunal. Just who will make up the tribunal is unclear at present. The internationals of course want Saif al-Islam Gaddafi before an international body, while it is said the transitional government in Libya wants to try him in a Libyan court in spite of the fact that no Libyan justice system has yet been established.
And what of this war crimes tribunal? Will they be looking at any and all war crimes committed in Libya or just those alleged to have been committed by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi? I am saying unequivocally it will be the latter because if all the war crimes were looked at, a few more defendants would be required, don’t you think, like Sarkozy, Cameron, and of course the Nobel Peace Prize winning Barack Hussein Obama.
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