I heard an interesting and crazy news segment today, from the 2/24/11 edition of PRIs "The World."
http://www.theworld.org/2011/02/gaddafi-activities-in-africa/In it they interviewed David Crane, founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He talked about how there was lots of evidence tying Libyas Gadhafi to crimes in Sierra Leone during the Sierra Leone Civil War 1999-2003. In fact he said all roads led back to Gadhafi - as Gadhafi was a main orchestrator of the 'West African joint criminal enterprise' -training Liberias president Charles Taylor, Burkino Fasos president Blaise Compaore, and the leader of the Revolutionary United Front Foday Sankoh in his Terrorist camps in the 1980s. As Gadhafi has stated -he wanted to be the "Emperor of Africa" - and so he was setting up all these people working with/for him, and they were responsible for most the movement of guns, cash, gold, diamonds and timber in west Africa.
This prosecutor said he made a political decision not to also prosecute Gadhafi and Compaore along with Charles Taylor, in that there was already unease about trying a sitting head of state (let alone three), and Gadhafi was popular with the west (funders of the court) at the time - clearing out his weapons, and selling oil.
Another interview with him about it, that also lists other countries in Gadhafis plans:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-gadhafi-west-africa-3mar11-117315153.html"Crane says, “He had a geo-political plan to place surrogates in various countries in West Africa, starting with Burkina Faso, then Liberia, followed by Sierra Leone, then Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Gambia and Senegal.”
