TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A spokesman for Libya’s interim administration, the National Transitional Council (NTC), said local officials in the desert town of Sabha had confirmed the capture today of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
A day after Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam was captured in the same general region, Abdul Hafiz Ghoga told a news conference that Senussi, the elder Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and loyal confidant, had been seized. Earlier, an NTC military official said Senussi had been surrounded at a house owned by his sister.
Following the killing of Muammar Gaddafi a month ago, his son and Senussi had been the surviving Libyans on the wanted list of the International Criminal Court. Ghoga said the NTC had agreed to resist requests from the ICC to hand them over and would argue that it could run fair trials in Libya.
