PhotoBlog - seif-al-islam

Nov

2011

9:53am, EST

Libya Free TV via Reuters TV / Reuters

Saif al-Islam, son of the late former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, sits after his capture, with his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket, at an undisclosed location, in this photograph aired on Free Libya TV on Nov. 19. The International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Office said on Saturday it had received confirmation of the arrest of Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam, from Libya's Ministry of Justice.

Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam is arrested in Libya

NBC, msnbc.com and news services report:

Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam — the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large — was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya's southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday. Thunderous celebratory gunfire shook the Libyan capital as the news spread.

A spokesman for the Libyan fighters who captured him said Seif al-Islam, who has been charged by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, was detained about 30 miles west of the town of Obari with two aides as he was trying to flee to neighboring Niger. But the country's acting justice minister later said the convoy's destination was not confirmed.

His capture just over a month after his father was killed leaves only former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi wanted by the ICC, which indicted the three men for in June for unleashing a campaign of murder and torture to suppress the uprising against the Gadhafi regime that broke out in mid-February.

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