Secret MI6 plan to spirit Gaddafi out of Libya so he could live out his days beyond the reach of international courts. The British government drew up plans to whisk Colonel Gaddafi out of Libya and allow him to live out his days in another African country, it was reported last night. Britain planned to offer Gaddafi an escape route to Equatorial Guinea. The MI6 plan would have placed the dictator ‘in retirement’ and out of the reach of international law in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. Members of Gaddafi’s immediate family, including his second wife and three children, fled to Algeria during the conflict carrying some of the regime’s vast wealth in gold bars. It has been claimed that the escape attempt had the tacit support of Western countries. Had Gaddafi made it to Equatorial Guinea, international prosecutors would have been unable to put him on trial for the abuses against his people during his 42-year reign. Placing dictators in ‘retirement’ is not without precedent. Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, fled his country in 1979 and lived out the rest of his life in Saudi Arabia dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435656/MI6-plan-spirit-Gaddafi-Libya-live-days-beyong-reach-international-courts.html
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