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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Carr said Libyan judicial officials investigating the actions of the four
detained staff – Taylor and colleagues from Lebanon, Russia and Spain, who
had been helping Saif choose a defence lawyer – were close to a conclusion.
But he said there were “extreme sensitivities” in the case, in which
Taylor has been accused of carrying a pen camera and attempting to give Saif
a coded letter from his former right-hand man, Mohammed Ismail, who is on
the run.
Australia is happy to be a broker between Libya and the ICC, Carr said after
meeting interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib and other senior
government officials.
“They recognise they’ve got to have a dialogue when this affair is
settled, and I think Australia could play a role as good global citizen in
facilitating it, and both of them are open to that suggestion,” he said.
There was “a lot of swirling resentment and hatred focused on Gaddafi in
prison” and the ICC could have better protected its staff when it sent
them to the country, Carr admitted.
“It’s certainly true that the Libyan authorities, not just the people in
Zintan, formed the view that something wrong was done, that there had been a
breach of trust,” Carr said.
“I believe the ICC would have been protecting its employees, Melinda
Taylor included, better, if they had negotiated protocols and procedures
with the Libyans before they allowed their people to go in.”
International pressure has been growing on Libya to release the ICC team, with
the United Nations Security Council issuing a statement expressing “serious
concern” over their detention.
Carr said Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz had told him the
government would respond to the UN “as soon as possible”.
Saif has been held in Zintan, 180 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Tripoli,
since his arrest on November 19 last year.
Source: AFP
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