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Libya stepped up pressure on Mauritania to hand over Muammar Gaddafi's feared intelligence chief Senussi on March 19, 2012, sending a senior delegation to argue he must face Libyan justice. 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The decision, if implemented, sets Libya on a collision course with France and the international war crimes court in The Hague, which also want to extradite Senussi, Gaddafi's right-hand man before the Libyan dictator's overthrow and death in a popular revolt last year. "I have met the president of Mauritania and he agreed to the extradition of Senussi to Libya," Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagour wrote on Twitter on Tuesday in a comment confirmed as official by a Libyan government representative. A Mauritanian security source said a deal was close but acknowledged pressure from Paris. "We agreed to study their request favorably. It's almost a done deal but one should be careful. The French are applying lots of pressure," the source said on condition of anonymity. "They say their claim takes priority because their arrest warrant went in first and because they helped with the arrest." Senussi, whose whereabouts had been unclear for months, was arrested at Mauritania's Nouakchott airport late on Friday when he stepped off a flight from Morocco. A senior Libyan delegation to Mauritania feted President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for his "brave stance" in arresting Senussi and during talks at his presidency stressed that Senussi should be extradited to Libya. "We greatly appreciate the position of the president who promised us that good will come of this matter," said a statement attributed to Shagour earlier and issued by Mauritania's official news agency AMI. France and the International Criminal Court also want Senussi. The ICC has indicted him for crimes against humanity, while he is also alleged to have had a role in the 1989 bombing of an airliner in which 54 French nationals died. "We want Senussi to be extradited to France. We feel we owe it to the victims' families and to justice," French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said of a step that would allow France to confirm the life sentence already handed down to Senussi in absentia by a French court. LOCKERBIE BOMBING Separately, diplomatic sources said the United States - which on Monday confirmed it had contacts with Mauritania over Senussi - had requested access to him before any transfer. "The Americans put in a request to Mauritanian authorities yesterday (Monday) morning to be able to meet Senussi while he is still in Mauritania, said one diplomatic source. A second diplomat also confirmed the request had been made. No comment was immediately available either from the Mauritanian or U.S. governments. Senussi's name has been linked to the 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland of a Pan Am jet that killed 270 people. A State Department spokeswoman said on Monday the United States had long expressed an interest in talking to him about it. Human rights groups doubt Senussi, 62, will have a fair trial in Libya and have called for his transfer to the ICC. Amnesty International described the Libyan judicial system as "paralyzed", noting it had not successfully investigated the death of prisoners in rebel detention or high-profile cases like the death of former military chief Abdel-Fattah Younis. "The Libyan judiciary has done nothing. It has held no one accountable and has not investigated a single case yet," Amnesty's Donatella Rovera told Reuters. However, Deputy Justice Minister Khalifa Faraj Ashour told Reuters in Tripoli the former intelligence chief would be tried fairly in his home country. "Security is good, the courts are working fine in almost all of the country," he said. "Even if there is a security breach once in a while, we can deal with it." "HIDDEN MONEY" Ashour said it was too early to discuss what charges Senussi could face in Libya. Interpol has issued a Red Notice for him at Libya's request for fraud offences including embezzling public funds and misuse of power for personal benefit. "In general, we can say one of the crimes is financial corruption. He knows a lot about hidden money," Ashour said. Senussi is also suspected of a key role in the killing of more than 1,200 inmates at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison in 1996. It was the arrest of a lawyer for victims' relatives that sparked Libya's Arab Spring revolt in February last year. "Senussi being handed over to Libya and tried here would be a great support for the Libyan revolution and the country's courts," Ashour said. "You have to realize that he committed many other crimes in Libya before the revolution." According to Mauritanian security sources, Senussi, who for decades was hated and feared by many ordinary Libyans, is being held in the main police training school in Nouakchott. The sources said the facility - which is surrounded by a high wall blocking all view from outside - was the only one which could keep Senussi in sufficient security while affording him a degree of comfort. According to two sources, a team of military doctors including Aziz's personal medic performed a medical check on Senussi on Sunday while he was still being held at a residence in the grounds of Nouakchott's international conference centre. (Additional reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Tripoli and Diadie Ba in Dakar; Writing by Mark John and Giles Elgood) 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. 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