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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 08:34 AM Sep 2012

Mauritania sends Gaddafi spy chief to Libya

Source: Aljazeera English

Mauritanian authorities have handed over Muammar Gaddafi's ex-spy chief to Libya nearly five months after he was arrested for entering the country illegally, state television reported.

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An official in the ministry of foreign affairs who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, said that Senussi boarded a flight at 9am local time (0900 GMT) and was headed to Tripoli.

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On June 27, 2011, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Senussi saying he was an "indirect perpetrator of crimes against humanity, of murder and persecution based on political grounds" in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

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Senussi is the target of another international arrest warrant after a Paris court sentenced him in absentia to life in prison for involvement in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/09/20129594148817996.html

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