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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Niger faces local anger if it delivers Gaddafi son | 29 Oct 2011 Syria's Assad warns of "earthquake" if West intervenes: report 29 Oct 2011 Jobless US vets say military experience not valued 29 Oct 2011 Saudi prince backs cleric's bounty offer for Israeli soldier 29 Oct 2011 Syria's Assad warns of "earthquake" if West intervenes | 29 Oct 2011 Discussed 289 Obama to announce help on housing, student loans 115 Two abortion clinic employees plead guilty to murder 90 Nazi jokes, wrath at Germans highlight Greek despair Watched New CPR technique revives man after 63 minutes without pulse Thu, Oct 27 2011 Video purports to show Gaddafi capture Mon, Oct 24 2011 Qantas: Dispute tribunal to decide Sat, Oct 29 2011 Niger faces local anger if it delivers Gaddafi son Tweet Share this Email Print Related News ICC fears son of Libya's Gaddafi may flee justice Sat, Oct 29 2011 Gaddafi son eyes safety, talks to Hague Fri, Oct 28 2011 ICC prosecutor seeks Gaddafi son's surrender Fri, Oct 28 2011 Gaddadi son Saif al-Islam finds friends in desert Fri, Oct 28 2011 Gaddafi son seeks flight to Hague war crimes court Thu, Oct 27 2011 Analysis & Opinion Counterparties Winter descends on the Arab spring Related Topics World » Libya » Related Video Wounded Libyan fighters flown to US. Sat, Oct 29 2011 1 of 2. Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures in Tripoli August 23, 2011 in this still image taken from video. Credit: Reuters/Reuters TV By Mark John NIAMEY | Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:03pm EDT NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger, the West African nation where Libya's fugitive Saif al-Islam Gaddafi may be headed, risks a backlash from nomad Tuaregs in its north if it follows through on its obligation to hand him over to the International Criminal Court. Libya's aid-reliant southern neighbor has vowed to respect commitments to the ICC, but knows that could spark unrest in Saharan areas where a string of past rebellions against the capital were nurtured by Muammar Gaddafi, feted by many in the desert as a hero. The Hague-based ICC said Gaddafi's 39-year-old son Saif al-Islam was in contact via intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information that mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation. Libyan officials and others involved in the situation have said Saif al-Islam was apparently anxious not to be captured by Libyan interim government forces in whose hands his father Muammar Gaddafi was killed more than a week ago. Niger has declined to comment on statements this past week from local leaders in its remote north that Saif al-Islam was most likely already on its side of the mountain range that straddles its porous border with Algeria and Mali. A senior official for the northern region of Agadez, which has been a way station for Libyan fugitives including another Gaddafi son Saadi, said on Saturday it had hosted U.S. military representatives for talks on security. The official, who requested anonymity, declined to say what the talks with the Americans were specifically about, but spoke of escape plans by Saif al-Islam and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, both wanted by the ICC for war crimes. "Senussi is being extricated from Mali toward a country that is a non-signatory to the (ICC) convention. I am certain that they will both (Senussi and Saif al-Islam) be extricated by plane, one from Mali, the other from Niger," said the official. He said there were at least 10 airstrips in the north of Niger near the Libyan border that could be used to whisk Saif al-Islam out of the country. A member of parliament from northern Mali, Ibrahim Assaleh Ag Mohamed, denied Senussi was in his country and said neither he nor Saif al-Islam would be accepted if they tried to enter. HELP FROM MERCENARIES Niger like Mali has signed up to the ICC's statute, but handing over Saif al-Islam would spark anger among northerners who feel remote from the capital Niamey and have long espoused Gaddafi's vision of a cross-border Saharan people. "We are ready to hide him wherever needed," Mouddour Barka, a resident of Agadez town, told Reuters. "We are telling the international community to stay out of this business and our own authorities not to hand him over -- otherwise we are ready to go out onto the streets and they will have us to deal with," he added. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters in an interview that communication with Saif al-Islam was being made possible by "intermediaries," despite his remote location. "There are some people connected with him that are in touch with people connected with us," he said on a visit to Beijing. "We have some information that there is a mercenary group trying to help him to move to a different country, so we are trying to prevent this activity," said Moreno-Ocampo, adding: "Some of them are South Africans allegedly." The Gaddafis befriended desert tribes in Niger, Mali and other poor former French colonies in West Africa. Other African countries received Libyan largesse during the 42-year rule of Gaddafi, a self-styled African "king of kings." France, a backer of February's revolt against Gaddafi, reminded African states of their obligations to hand Saif al-Islam over to the international court. "We don't care whether he goes on foot, by plane, by boat, by car or on a camel, the only thing that matters is that he belongs in the ICC," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero. Niger, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso, a swathe of arid states to the south of Libya, are all signatories to the treaty that set up the ICC. Algeria, which took in Saif al-Islam's mother, sister, brother Hannibal and half-brother Mohammed, is not a signatory. Nor is Sudan or Zimbabwe. Saif al-Islam was once seen as a liberal reformer, architect of a rapprochement with Western states on whom his father waged proxy guerrilla wars for decades. But he responded with belligerent rhetoric after the revolt erupted in Libya. The ICC accuses him of hiring mercenaries to carry out a plan, worked out with his father and Senussi, to kill unarmed protesters inspired by "Arab Spring" uprisings elsewhere. (Additional reporting by Barry Malone in Tripoli, Chris Buckley in Beijing, Sara Webb and Aaron Gray-Block in Amsterdam, Samia Nakhoul in London, Ibrahim Diallo in Agadez; Editing by Ralph Gowling) World Libya Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) lua452 wrote: It will be hard, but terrorists must be exterminated off the face of this earth. No more blackmail, no more suicide bombers, no more killing the innocent. Destroy them all. If his son is not turned over for trial, then assasinate him. There is no excuse for this. Oct 29, 2011 11:08pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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