The failure today of Libya is directly owned by Hillary Clinton as noted by emails released from the State Department and Sidney Blumenthal due to the Benghazi investigation.
Clinton, encouraged by the news, forwarded the message to her deputy Jake Sullivan — a current adviser to the Obama administration for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program — saying he “should consider passing to Israelis,” according to the Times report that was released on Monday.
The Guardian: Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death by court in Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and other senior members of former Libyan regime sentenced by court in Tripoli after trial mired in controversy
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, has been sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli.
Saif, once seen as his father’s heir apparent, was condemned to death along with eight other figures from the former dictatorship, including the former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and Gaddafi’s last prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi.
The trial, which opened in Tripoli in April last year, has been mired in controversy after human rights groups and the international criminal court questioned its standards.
There is uncertainty about whether the sentence will be carried out, as Saif is being held by a militia in the mountain town of Zintan that is opposed to Libya Dawn, the militia coalition in control of Tripoli.
Saif has been held in Zintan since he was caught trying to flee Libya in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution. The militia has refused to hand him over to Tripoli.
The international criminal court has refused permission for Libya to try Saif, who has been indicted by the Hague, along with Senussi, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Judges in the Hague have given permission for Senussi to be tried.
There are unlikely to be immediate executions after Sadiq al-Sur, head of the investigation department of the attorney general, said lawyers could appeal against the sentences.
In June last year, militias controlling the prison where Saif is being held briefly arrested a United Nations monitor, accusing him of black magic. He was later released.
Civil war engulfed the country last July, with Libya Dawn militias seizing the capital and the internationally recognised government fleeing to eastern Libya and losing control of the trial process.
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Qaddafi was instrumental is several nefarious actions in Libya being a large part of his father’s inner circle.
There was the weapons of mass destruction program in Libya.
There was the case of HIV infecting 400 children.
There was the Lockerbie bombing, yet there is some linkage to Iran.
There was the disco bombing in Berlin.
The most interesting scandal of the Qaddafi family was their deep relationship to the British Royal family, the Rothchilds and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
