Muammar Gaddafi Live Blog

Like the rest of his family, Saadi Gaddafi has been on the run since the rebels began to win the upperhand in the Libyan conflict...

In late August, he was believed to have fled to the Libyan town of Bani Walid with his father and brother, Italian news agency ANSA reported at the time.  When his father fled south, there were some indications that Saadi was willing to surrender.

In early September, while his brother Saif al-Islam vowed to continue fighting the NTC, Saadi urged negotiations to end the bloodshed. 

Today's news of an unrealised plan to hightail to Mexico involves a scheme dating from September.

He soon sought shelter in Niger, however, as intense fighting continued. Interpol released a Red Notice for Saadi in late September, accusing him of corruption and armed intimidation.

Nigerien authorities have pledged that they will not extradite Saadi to Libya because of the risk he will not receive a fair trial and may face the death penalty. In mid-November, he was granted asylum in Niger.

Syria's president has reached "a point of no return" and faces the same fate as former despots in Libya and Iraq, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday, predicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime could fall within months under growing international pressure.

"I think that he went beyond the point of no return, no way that he will resume his authority or legitimacy."

"And it's clear to me that what happened a few weeks ago to Gaddafi ... and what happened ultimately to Saddam Hussein, now might await him," he said, in an apparent reference to the murder of the former Libyan leader on October 20.

Libya's new rulers said on Thursday they would prosecute the killers of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi following  the international outcry over the circumstances of his death.

"With regards to Kadhafi, we do not wait for anybody to tell us," said  Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council at a news conference in Benghazi.

"We had already launched an investigation. We have issued a code of ethics in handling of prisoners of war. I am sure that was an individual act and not an act of revolutionaries or the national army," the top interim official said.

"Whoever is responsible for that (Gaddafi's killing) will be judged and given a fair trial."

--AFP

Gaddafi's family plans to file a war crimes complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the alliance's alleged role in his death, the family's lawyer said.

Marcel Ceccaldi, a French lawyer who previously worked for Gaddafi’s regime and now represents his family, told AFP news agency on Wednesday that a complaint would be filed with the Hague-based ICC because NATO's attack on the convoy led directly to his death.

"The wilful killing (of someone protected by the Geneva Convention) is defined as a war crime by Article 8 of the ICC's Rome Statute," he said.

He said he could not yet say when the complaint would be filed, but said it would target both NATO executive bodies and the leaders of alliance member states.