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Gaddafi nearly captured on Wednesday: report
1 of 2. A rebel steps on a poster of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi at Rixos hotel, after gunmen released foreigners, in Tripoli August 24, 2011.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan commandos fighting Muammar Gaddafi came close to capturing the toppled leader on Wednesday when they raided a private home in Tripoli where he appeared to have been hiding, Paris Match magazine said on Thursday.
Citing a source in a unit which it said was coordinating among intelligence services from Arab states and Libyan rebels, the French weekly said on its website that these services believed Gaddafi was still somewhere in the Libyan capital.
Gaddafi was gone from the unassuming safe house in central Tripoli when agents arrived about 10 a.m. (4 a.m. EDT) on Wednesday after a tip-off from a credible source. But, the magazine said, they found evidence that he had spent at least one night there -- though it did not say how recently that was.
France has taken a leading military role in the NATO force backing the rebels. Britain's defense minister said on Thursday that NATO was helping with intelligence and reconnaissance in the hunt for Gaddafi and his sons. Many analysts believe France, Britain and Arab allies, notably Qatar, may have some special forces on the ground in Tripoli working with Libyan commandos.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
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…”going to war to change another country’s regime is prohibited by international law, while the Nuremburg judgment of 1946 laid down that “to initiate a war of aggression”, as Blair and Bush clearly did against Iraq, “is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.
Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/57361,news-comment,news-politics,war-crime-case-against-tony-blair-is-now-rock-solid#ixzz1W2esZe1u
No where
Gaddafi allowed the UN inspectors for the last 9 years. Yes, we are SURE he doesn’t have WMD’s
Gaddafi , unlike Saddam, has NEVER committed crimes against his own people. IN fact, the revolution that removed the Monarchy(supported by europeand and the US) was bloodless.
We have been fooled yet again into going to war without cause.
In Iraq, on the other hand, the US and UK invaded another country that was not currently at war, either civil or international. The justifications for invading were very flimsy, there was no evidence Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and it was very clear that the Iraqi regime was not particularly friendly to Al Quaeda.
So renceD is right about there being a case against Blair. But it has little to do with the Libya situation. After doing nothing in Rwanda and waiting WAY too long to do anything in Bosnia and Afghanistan, it’s about damn time we intervened before mass murder occurred, instead of waiting until after Gaddafi levelled Benghazi to do anything.
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