That’s the most likely destination.

In addition, why would Frattini want to broker a ceasefire deal in Libya? Didn’t the Libyan Prime Minister assure Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, in one of those calls to Castille, that the Libyan government was observing a ceasefire?
Didn’t Libya declare two ceasefires in as many days?

It was the UN Security Council resolution to demand a ceasefire by the Libyan government, and Gaddafi has not complied despite his two declarations of a ceasefire. Why negotiate with this “man”?

Even if they are convicted for war crimes, given that it would not result in a death sentence they will still remain a danger.

The only safe way of dealing with him is to eliminate him while it is still ‘acceptable’ to do so.

One American official has already alluded to a way of doing this. He said something like – ‘we are of course not deliberately targeting him – our laws prohibit that. However if he happens to be inspecting a missile site and we happen to drop a bomb on it at that time we have no way of knowing he was there would we?’

@ david

The Pope is asking the impossible. Peace with Gaddafi is a death sentence commuted to a later date when his goons can come and finish what they had promised.

‘Evil awakens when men of good intent cower’ – make no mistake, Gaddafi is evil. If military action stops now there will be nothing more than a false peace. The rebels know it, the military know it, but the question is whether some politicians can stomach the next phase of this little war.

I think he’ll end up going to Zimbabwe. No, this is not yet another punchline.

Or Sardegna, actually. I understand there is available room in Berlusconi’s villa.

“A senior American official signalled that a solution in which Gaddafi flee to a country beyond the reach of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating war crimes charges against him, would be acceptable to Washington, pointing out that Barack Obama had repeatedly called on Gaddafi to leave.”

Wouldn’t a country beyond the reach of the ICC merit a coordinated attack by the US and its allies, in the same way as Libya?

I am a bit confused now. I am now proud that Malta was not part of the coalition, and I hope the PM will not now tell us that his position was compatible with this new position of the coalition because he was the first to tell us that Gaddafi’s exit was “inevitable.”

The wrong message is being sent out to tyrants: you can spend 42 years in greed, breaching the human rights of your people, and then we let you go. What sort of justice is that?
Ronald Reagan must be turning in his grave really now.

Or Malta.

Zimbabwe anyone? They deserve each other.