Sanctions imposed, and Gaddafi referred to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity
BBC World, updated 08:36GMT today
UN Security Council votes sanctions on Gaddafi
Susan Rice, US Ambassador to UN: “This is a clear warning to the Libyan Government”
The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan regime for its attempts to put down an uprising.
They backed an arms embargo and asset freeze while referring Col Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
US President Barack Obama has said the Libyan leader should step down and leave the country immediately.
He still controls Tripoli, but eastern Libya has fallen to the uprising.
Discussions on forming an anti-Gaddafi transitional government are reportedly under way.
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Good news. Now let us hope that we will see Gaddafi at The Hague with KMB as his defence lawyer.
One loser defends another.
Mintoff and KMB are not Gaddafi’s only friends it seems:
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/7397.html
Thankfully, neither KMB nor Mintoff are in a position to provide him with some real help, and neither is PL in government (yet?).
Falzon – trying to be funny in this critical time?
I don’t get it, pleae help me – what’s funny about that? Have I fallen for a spoof news web site or something?
Or are you referring to the Conan O’Brien videos I posted elsewhere. I can understand that those may be considered by some to be in bad taste.
Better still, in the dock with him.
Ray,
Dak ghandu lil Aisha, it-tifla tieghu, tiddefendih. Wara kollox ma marritx tiddefendi lil Saddam Hussein, u ghamlet success ghax hasdulu rasu?
Jien anzi nissuggerixxi li mhux hu biss jigi akkuzat imma tal-familja kolla tieghu u ta’ madwaru, dawk li ghadhom imwahhlin mieghu minhabba il-flus li ghandu.
The US – the mainstay of righteousness.
[Daphne – Actually I was just thinking how efficient they are in situations like this. They knew exactly where each and every one of their citizens was located. They rounded them up, notified them, chartered the cataramans, whisked them out, then closed the embassy and slammed down with sanctions. Meanwhile, everyone else is scrambling over each other.]
Thank God for Big Brother in situations like these.
Aisha ddefendiet lil Saddam Hussein, imma ara xi gralu.
Muammar Gaddafi ma jkunx jixtieq li jispicca imdendel min ghonqu hu wkoll.
U anqas ma nahseb li ser jikkuntenta bxi difiza minn KMB jeqq qatt jidher quddiem xi Qorti Nternazzjonali mixli b”reati kontra l-umanita’. U ma nlumux!