Muammar Qaddafi’s son Seif Al-Islam without a doubt would get a death sentence if tried in Libya, his lawyer told the Hague-based International Criminal Court on October 10. “Although the Libyan government has danced around the issue, let’s be very clear: if convicted (in Libya) Mr Qaddafi will be hanged,” Melinda Taylor, a court-appointed lawyer, told judges amid a dispute on where Seif should face justice.
Meanwhile, the US President Barack Obama’s anti-terror adviser, John Brennan, was in Tripoli yesterday to discuss investigations into a deadly attack on US diplomats in Libya last month, an official said. His visit comes almost one month after the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in the eastern city of Benghazi in which four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed. It follows the first visit by FBI agents to the crime scene in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 revolt that toppled and killed long-time dictator Muammar Qaddafi.