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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Foreign Minister Bob Carr says detained Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor could be freed by Libyan authorities within ten days if the International Criminal Court (ICC) apologises.
Senator Carr said on Wednesday he had spoken with ICC President Sang-Hyun Song after his visit to Libya on Monday when he pushed Prime Minister Aburrahim el-Keib for Ms Taylor’s release.
“He (Judge Song) was moving towards a form of words that in my view would satisfy the Libyans,” Senator Carr told Fairfax Media on Wednesday from Morocco.
“I spoke to the Libyan authorities yesterday and they confirmed their willingness, indeed their eagerness to release the detainees subject to that form of words.”
The foreign minister said there was a deeply ingrained and sincere view of the Libyan prime minister and his deputy foreign minister there had been a breach of trust by the four ICC lawyers detained.
Ms Taylor has been detained since June 7, along with three ICC colleagues, after a meeting with the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam.
Senator Carr said he will insist in further talks with Libyan authorities that Ms Taylor be allowed to phone her family in Australia.
“I’m saying to the Libyan government today, enough’s enough; it’s time to allow telephone contact between Melinda Taylor and her family,” he said.
At the core of the problem was an inadequate set of protocols and procedures before the ICC delegates went into the country, which was no reflection on Ms Taylor, the foreign minister said.
“Indeed, she was a victim of the failure of her organisation to settle procedures and protocols that were acceptable to the Libyans,” Senator Carr said.
The minister said he wanted to “telescope” a process within a week or week and ten days, provided both sides were moving on track.
“I want to telescope that process and have it happen faster but, both sides have got to be persuaded to do that.”
Both Amnesty International and the coalition have been critical of Senator Carr’s handling of the case.
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