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Via the BBC: Libya: ICC issues arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi
The court had accused him of crimes against humanity and of ordering attacks on civilians after an uprising against him began in mid-February.The Hague-based court also issued warrants for two of Col Gaddafi’s top aides – his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science at Troy University. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. He is the author of Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia and is currently working on a comparative study of the US to 29 other democracies. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging at PoliBlog since 2003.
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I wonder if the ICC think that this will encourage him to leave Libya?
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We don’t answer to the ICC, I don’t see why Ghaddafi should.
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Answering Dave’s question, this is another in a series of stupid moves on this front by the international community. The answer to entrenched dictators is a golden parachute, not months of war and faux arrest warrants. All this does is force him to dig in, as he has no good alternatives.
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