Abdullah as-Sanusi

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Abdullah as-Sanusi ( Arabic عبد الله السنوسي, DMG ʿAbd Allāh as-Sanūsī ; * 1949 in Sudan ) is a brother-in-law of the former Libyan revolutionary leader and ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi . He is married to a sister of Gaddafi's wife and has long been considered his most trusted helper.

Life

Ascent

According to The Guardian newspaper, it has had a reputation for brutality since the 1970s. During the 1980s, when many of Gaddafi's political rivals were killed, he was chief of the security forces. He is said to have recruited Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , who was responsible for the Lockerbie attack, as an intelligence officer . Many Libyans consider him to be responsible for the massacre of over 1200 prisoners in Abu Salim prison in 1996. In 1999 he was in France for the bomb attack on Flight 772 of the Union de Transports Aériens on September 19, 1989, which killed 171 people Found death over Niger , convicted in absentia. Since then he has not been able to leave the country. More recently, he has been seen as the main person in charge of military intelligence, although it was unclear whether he held an official rank. It is also believed that he was involved in 2003 plans to assassinate the then Saudi Crown Prince , Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz .

Civil War 2011

In the course of the civil war , Libyan newspapers reported on March 1, 2011 that Gaddafi had released him from his duties. On March 16, 2011, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court , Luis Moreno Ocampo , requested an arrest warrant against him for crimes against humanity . On September 9, 2011, he, together with Muammar al-Ghadhafi and his son Saif al-Islam , was put out to be wanted by Interpol and was reportedly arrested on November 20, 2011. Defense Minister Usama al-Juwaili denied his arrest on November 24.

On March 17, 2012, Abdullah as-Sanusi was arrested by the Mauritanian authorities at Nouakchott Airport . He came from Casablanca with a forged Malian passport . Two days later, the Libyan government applied for al-Sanusi to be extradited. France and the International Criminal Court also requested his transfer. On September 5, 2012, Mauritania extradited Sanusi to Libya.

In custody

On February 7, 2012, the International Criminal Court ruled that Libya was obliged to extradite as-Sanusi to The Hague. However, Libya failed to meet this obligation. In mid-June 2013, the attorney general's office announced that the trial of as-Sanusi would begin in August and would be merged with the trials against Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi , al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi and Mansur Dao . On July 24, 2014, the proceedings against him were dropped following a decision by the Appeals Chamber that the International Criminal Court had no jurisdiction.

On September 2, 2013, strangers kidnapped his daughter, Al-Anud al-Senussi , who left the detention center in Tripoli in a convoy after she was released. She was sentenced to 10 months in prison for crossing the border with a forged passport. On September 8, she was released by the kidnappers and fled to live with relatives in southern Libya.

On July 28, 2015, a Tripoli court sentenced him to death . Along with al-Sanusi, eight other people, including Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, were sentenced to death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ File No .: 2011/108 / OS / CCC. Alert concerning the possible movement of dangerous individuals and assets. (PDF 182 kB) In: Press releases. Interpol , March 4, 2011, p. 6 , accessed on May 18, 2011 (English).
  2. ^ A b Ian Black: Gaddafi's confidant is Abdullah Senussi, a brutal right-hand man. Gaddafi's ruthless brother-in-law is likely to be advising the Libyan leader on his response to the uprising, analysts say. In: The Guardian. February 22, 2011, accessed May 17, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Ben Quinn, Paul Owen: Libya uprising - Tuesday 1 March as it happened: part 2. In: The Guardian. March 1, 2011, accessed May 17, 2011 .
  4. ^ An arrest warrant against Gaddafi applied for . FAZ , May 16, 2011 the same as the request date
  5. ↑ Interpol writes out Muammar al-Ghadhafi for a search. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 9, 2011, accessed September 9, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Libya: Abdullah Sanusi, Gaddafi's Masterspy, Captured. (No longer available online.) In: The Tripoli Post. November 20, 2011, archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; accessed on April 8, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Libya defense minister disputes Abdullah al-Senussi capture claims in the Guardian on November 24, 2011.
  8. ↑ Le Figaro Online: Un proche de Kadhafi arrêté en Mauritanie accessed March 17, 2012 (fr)
  9. ^ Libya demands extradition of the ex-head of the secret service Focus Online, March 19, 2012
  10. ↑ (dapd): Libya: Mauritania extradites former Libyan intelligence chief. In: welt.de . September 5, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Extradition order against Ghadhafi's deputy
  12. ^ Libyan judiciary is planning trial of Gaddafi's son from August
  13. ↑ Case Information Sheet: Situation in Libya The Prosecutor v. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. (PDF) (No longer available online.) ICC, June 13, 2016, archived from the original on February 28, 2018 ; accessed on October 8, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.icc-cpi.int
  14. ↑ Daughter kidnapped by Gaddafi's secret service chief
  15. ↑ Libya ex-spy chief's daughter Anoud al-Senussi released . BBC News, September 8, 2013
  16. ^ Death penalty for Ghadhafi's son Saif al-Islam. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 28, 2015, accessed July 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanusi, Abdullah as-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan brother-in-law of the Libyan revolutionary leader and ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi
DATE OF BIRTH 1949