Mauritania Expels Intelligence Chief to New Libyan Government

Senussi arrived in Libya on Wednesday and has been under detention with other Gaddafi-era officials, including a former premier, in an unknown place in the capital Tripoli, the Associated Press quoted a Libyan official as saying.

"Abdullah al-Senussi will have a fair trial according to international standards for human rights, the rights from which Libyans were deprived," Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib said on Wednesday.

The spy chief's extradition happened after a high-level meeting between Libyan and Mauritanian officials on Tuesday.

Senussi was arrested in March for illegal entry to Mauritania upon his arrival in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, from Casablanca, Morocco.
Gaddafi's spy chief, wanted on a 2011 ICC arrest warrant in connection with the brutal crackdown on popular protests during the revolution that toppled Gaddafi's regime, is also wanted by France and the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has also been linked to the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 270 people were killed.

Senussi will be tried by the Libyan government for crimes against humanity during the country's last year revolution.

Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org