Gaddafi’s spy chief held in Mauritania
March 18th, 2012 - 3:43 am ICT by IANSMoscow, March 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Late former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief has been arrested in Mauritania, one of Africa’s newest oil producers countries, the Al Jazeera reported Saturday.
The 63-year-old Abdullah al-Senussi has been described as a hardliner and one of Gaddafi’s closest aides. He fled Libya after Gaddafi was deposed and then killed in an uprising last year.
According to Mauritanian security officials, Al-Senussi who is also Gaddafi’s brother-in-law, was detained at Nouakchott airport as he arrived from the Moroccan city of Casablanca on a false Malian passport.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has indicted Senussi on two counts of crimes against humanity.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
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