AP - Europe and the United States are preparing to unfreeze billions of dollars in Libyan assets that will be crucial to the country's success after Moammar Gadhafi.
BRUSSELS/WARSAW — The United States could turn to Canada to help it establish a new NATO force in eastern Europe as a deterrent against Russia because it is struggling to win support from its European allies, diplomats say.
Despite its show of force with a military exercise across eastern Europe this month that involved more than 20 NATO and partner countries, the alliance is moving slowly in its efforts to build a rotating force of 4,000 troops on its eastern flank in Poland and the Baltics.
Switzerland’s government has moved to freeze any assets in the country’s banks that might belong to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, who holds increasing sway over the Italian economy, upset some Italians by urging conversion to Islam during a three-day visit to the home of Roman Catholicism.
TRIPOLI, Libya — A court in Libya on Tuesday sentenced a son of Moammar Gadhafi to death by firing squad after convicting him of murder and inciting genocide during the country’s 2011 civil war.
It is unlikely, however, that the sentence against Seif al-Islam Gadhafi will be carried out anytime soon, as a militia in western Libya has refused to hand him over to the government for the past four years.
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He was once a playboy with a soccer career sponsored by his dictator father but now Saadi Gadhafi, the son of Libya’s longtime ruler, Moammar Gadhafi, has appeared in a video documenting prisoner abuse.
Throughout the nine-minute long video, the 42-year-old sits hunched and blindfolded as he listens to the screams of other detainees being beaten. At the end of the film, Gadhafi’s jailers ask him if he would rather be beaten on his feet or on his buttocks.