Mauritania extradites Gadhafi's ex-spy chief ; Senoussi en route to Libya
<http://www.thecanadianpress.com/> Description: The Canadian PressBy Ahmed Mohamed, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press 2 hours 58 minutes ago * <http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/file-tuesday-oct-6-2009-file-photo-intellig ence-photo-111659676.html> Description: FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, right, whispers to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Sabha, Libya. A government statement read on national radio states that Mauritania has agreed to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief, months after he tried to slip into Mauritania wearing a disguise and traveling on a fake passport. An official said Al-Senoussi is already on a plane headed to Libya. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)View Photo FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - The man accused of having helped orchestrate some of the worst crimes committed by the regime of ex-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been extradited back to Libya, according to a Mauritanian government statement. The communique carried by national radio and on Mauritania's official news agency said Abdullah al-Senoussi, who ran Gadhafi's feared intelligence service, was sent back to Libya, giving no further details. An official in the ministry of foreign affairs, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said that al-Senoussi boarded a special flight at 9 a.m. local time (0900 GMT) and was headed to Tripoli. Libya, the International Criminal Court as well as France had all asked to try the former intelligence chief, who is known as Gadhafi's "black box." He is accused of complicity in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, as well as the Abu Salim prison massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Gadhafi's regime in 1996. Al-Senoussi was arrested at Mauritania's international airport in March, where he showed up disguised as a Tuareg chieftain, wearing flowing robes and a turban. He was travelling on a fake passport. For months, Mauritania resisted calls to hand him over, insisting that their laws had been violated and that he should be tried on Mauritanian soil. Oriane Maillet, a spokeswoman for the international tribunal in The Hague, said the court has received no information yet from Libyan authorities on the transfer of al-Senoussi, but stressed that an international arrest warrant has been issued for him based on ICC charges. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who led a delegation to the region, told reporters in Tripoli earlier this year that the U.S. had a "particular interest (in seeing him arrested) because of his role with the Lockerbie bombing." The airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland killed 270 people. France also lobbied to get custody of al-Senoussi. He was one of six Libyans convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison in France for the 1989 bombing of a passenger jet over Niger that killed all 170 people on board, including 54 French people. Al-Senoussi is known as Gadhafi's "black box," because of his closeness to the ex-leader and his role in the regime's worst abuses. Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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