{"id":9959,"date":"2012-05-18T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2012-05-18T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:40:44","slug":"un-should-investigate-the-use-of-mercenaries-in-syria-inline-with-libya-gadhafi-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"UN should investigate the use of Mercenaries in Syria inline with Libya, Gadhafi investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Follow Al-Akhbar on Twitter Like Al-Akhbar on Facebook Subscribe to our RSS Feed<br \/>\nUN to investigate Libya mercenaries<\/strong><br \/>\n18 May, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>UN human rights experts say they will visit Libya next week to examine the use of mercenaries to fight the uprising that eventually brought down Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s four-decade dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Faiza Patel, head of the UN Human Rights Council panel, says it also aims to collect &#8220;direct and first-hand information&#8221; on private companies offering military aid, consultants and security to Gadhafi&#8217;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>Patel and another expert said on Friday they will spend four days in Libya at the invitation of the government, which claims to have evidence linking Gaddafi&#8217;s son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, to the supervision and planning of the recruitment of mercenaries in the civil war that ended the regime.<\/p>\n<p>The International Criminal Court prosecutor said in April that Libya also claims to have evidence linking Gaddafi&#8217;s son to executions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/un-investigate-libya-mercenaries\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9959&amp;text=UN+should+investigate+the+use+of+Mercenaries+in+Syria+inline+with+Libya%2C+Gadhafi+investigation&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Al-Akhbar on Twitter Like Al-Akhbar on Facebook Subscribe to our RSS Feed UN to investigate Libya mercenaries 18 May, 2012 &#8211; Al Akhbar UN human rights experts say they will visit Libya next week to examine the use of mercenaries to fight the uprising that eventually brought down Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s four-decade dictatorship. Faiza Patel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9959#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3047],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}