Posted on 11/24/2011 11:35:43 PM PST by Cardhu
Libya's new defence minister has said he has seen no evidence to back claims by his government that it has captured Abdullah al-Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief who is wanted by the international criminal court.
Osama Jweli said that since being appointed to the defence post on Tuesday night he had made inquiries trying to establish if Senussi had been captured but had had no reply.
"I have not seen any proof," he said. "When our Thwar [revolutionary fighters] capture someone, you have pictures of him on video straight away, or anyway within a couple of hours, made by those who caught him. With Senussi you have nothing."
The Libyan government said on Saturday it had reports that Senussi had been captured while hiding at the home of his sister in the southern city of Sabha, 300 miles south of Tripoli.
But on Wednesday night the Libyan president, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, said he did not have "any confirmation" that Senussi is in custody.
The arrest of Senussi, long considered the power behind Gaddafi's throne, was reported the day after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the late dictator's son who is also indicted by the ICC, was captured.
Saif is being held in Zintan, 90 miles south of Tripoli, by militias who captured him while on patrol at Sabha, and who were commanded by Jweli until he was the surprise choice as the new defence chief.
Videos and photographs of Saif have been circulating in the media since last Friday, showing him talking with his captors and in good health, but of Senussi there has been nothing.
Senussi was one of the most powerful men in Gaddafi's Libya. A long-time confidant of the former leader who was killed by rebel forces in Sirte last month, Senussi was privy to Libya's innermost secrets.
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He probably WAS captured, until he paid one of the corrupt SOBs off.
You are probably right about that - take the money and let him go then try and capture him again to keep the merry-go-round turning.
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