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War crimes prosecutor to check on Gadhafi's son

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Saturday he will travel to Libya next week for talks with the country’s transitional government on where Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam will face trial.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said that while national governments have the right to try their own citizens for war crimes, he is concerned that Gadhafi will have a fair trial and that he be tried for the same charges he faces at the ICC.

“The good news is that Seif al-Islam is arrested, he is alive, and now he will face justice,” Ocampo said in an interview Saturday in The Hague.

Gadhafi’s son — the only wanted member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large — was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya’s southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday.

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