The Full Story Behind the Arrest of ICC Team & ICC team visit detained colleagues

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The Full Story Behind the Arrest of ICC Four-member Team in Libya

Then Ms. Taylor wanted to meet the war criminal in private and the officials of Khalid bin Al-Walid brigade objected because there was no available female security at that moment to search her before she is allowed to meet the dangerous prisoner alone. They hesitated and later approved the request with one condition that is an old man should be allowed to sit at a corner of the meeting room and only to observe things from afar.

The ICC team agreed. What the heck. The old man seemed to be totally out of it and thought they could accomplish the mission without him noticing anything. They had probably used the same technique many times before. As members of the brigade left the room, Taylor made sarcastic comment about the old man sitting at the corner: “no fear from him. He looks as the chair he’s sitting on.”

Taylor then quickly pulled out a three-page letter from under her clothes and deceptively passed it to the prisoner. She also showed him a message in her mobile and passed to him equipments, tiny cameras and sensors that determine the whereabouts of someone or something. The sensors are of the size of pen’s head. At this point, the prisoner, Seif Gaddafi, took out a letter written in English and another blank paper signed by him and passed them to Taylor.

As this hash hash exchange ended, the old man spoke to them in English and called on the security to intervene. Taylor and the others were struck that the ‘chair’ old man, who turned to be the college instructor sheikh Ahmed Omar al-Zintani, knew English, French and Italian. When pressed to answer questions, Taylor denied any wrong doing. A female police officer was called in to search the Australian lawyer and her Lebanese interpreter, Helen Assaf, and the secret letters were found on her body.

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UPDATE 2-ICC team visit detained colleagues in Libya

ZINTAN, Libya, June 12 (Reuters) - A delegation from the International Criminal Court on Tuesday visited their colleagues being held in Libya over allegations they had smuggled documents to Muammar Gaddafi's detained son.

"The delegation as well as ambassadors for their (the detained ICC staff) countries visited them," said Ahmed al-Gehani, a Libyan lawyer who is in charge of the Saif al-Islam case and liaises between the government and the ICC.

"They are well, they are in a guesthouse, not in a prison. They have food, water, and are being treated well."

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC's chief prosecutor, told Reuters on Monday evening the Libyan authorities had the right to investigate the case against the ICC pair. But he said the allegations against them surprised him. "It's not what we would expect of the court, of the defence," the prosecutor said. (Additional reporting by Ali Shuaib in Tripoli and Thomas Escritt in Amsterdam; Writing by Christian Lowe)

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E8HCI1C20120612?sp=true