The arrest of Saif al-Islam put an end to the epilogue of the Gaddafi regime

The arrest today of Saif al-Islam, the only son of the late dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi who was still in Libya, puts an end to the epilogue of a regime which collapsed in August with the fall of Tripoli and that vanished two months later, with the death of Qaddafi and the loss of the last bastion, Sirte.

"While it appears as one of the symbols of the old regime, will be treated as a prisoner of war in accordance with international law", he told Efe the interim Prime Minister Abderrahim to Kib, shortly after the announcement of his arrest.

To the Kib, moved to Zintan, where he was transferred to Islam after his capture, to make the official announcement of the arrest, said that today is "a historic moment" and that after his Libya detention begins the construction of "a State built on freedom, law, justice and transparency".

"Saif and those who are with him will be tried in a manner fair which will guarantee the rights" u000a"legal and international agreements, those rights which for 42 years has been private the Libyan people", said in a brief ceremony interrupted by applause and praise Dios.

According to the story of Bashir to the Talib, Chief of the military Council of Zintan, located 150 kilometres south of Tripoli, Islam is in good health, which confirmed to Efe, the Minister of Justice of the Libyan national transition Council (CNT), Mohamed to the Alagui and information corroborated several images broadcast later.

The first graphical test of his detention, which appeared in the Libyan channel Libiya, showed him reclining on a bed with three fingers of the hand bandaged. A wound had according to the head of the military Council of Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belhach, before being arrested.

Subsequently, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera broadcast images on the plane that moved it from the place where he was arrested until Zintan, where u000acame a brigade of militia which stopped.

Appear rigged in ways typical of the tuareg costumes, with a robe and a turban color Tan.

Saif al-Islam, which during the popular uprising which broke out on February 17 became the spokesperson of the regime, was arrested without resistance 50 kilometers of Obari, a town 800 kilometres south of Tripoli.

Was with three companions when a rebel Brigade "Abu Bakr to el Sedik", name of the first Caliph of islam, stopped it.

On processing, Abdelhakim Belhach, wanted to underline that the Libyan justice "will have something to say", in relation to the order of international search that weighs concerning Islam.

The general prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has already contacted the Libyan authorities to make sure that any procedure "is in line with the law", according to Florence Olara, spokesman for the Attorney general of the u000aCourt.

On February 9, the general prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo, said that if the Libyan authorities "opened an investigation against Saif al-Islam for the same crimes" which it accused the ICC, the last word on where prosecute him would La Corte.

Trial in Libya, as suggested by the Libyan authorities or in the Hague, the arrest of Islam put an end to the epilogue of a regime which began to raise his image and likeness Mu'ammar-Gaddafi following a military coup in 1969.

A regime which began with the popular uprising of 17 February that became stronger in the East of the country and, with the help of NATO, which imposed a no-fly zone, was gaining ground forces of a regime which never gave his arm to twist.

In recoil, the members of the all-powerful Gaddafi clan were falling on the road or leaving the country.

Saif al Arab, son of Gaddafi, died April 20 in a u000abombing of NATO against the residential complex of Gaddafi in Tripoli. July 29, three sons of the dictator, Mohamed, Aisha and Hannibal and his second wife, Safia, found refuge in Algeria that welcomed them on "humanitarian grounds".

A month later, another son of Gaddafi, Jamis, responsible for suppressing the revolt, died in a few matches in Tarhunah, one 90 kilometers south of Trípoli.

In the month of September Saadi, football player, fleeing to Niger, and finally, on 20 October, few hours after the announcement the fall of the last bastion gadafista, Sirte, Gaddafi and his son Mu'tasim were detained, tortured and possibly killed by the rebels.

Only remained Saif al-Islam, which according to the authorities of the CNT, concentrated now appoint a transitional Government, not already entailed no danger to the new Libya.

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