International court prosecutor seeks arrest of Gaddafi

The UN war crimes court's chief prosecutor applied on Monday for a warrant
for Muammer Gaddafi's arrest for crimes against humanity, a day after his
regime offered truce in return for a halt in Nato air strikes.

Nato, meanwhile, conducted fresh air raids on an outlying suburb of Tripoli,
destroying a radar base, the state news agency JANA and residents said.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the International Criminal Court prosecutor, said
warrants were also sought against three Gaddafi sons, his intelligence
chiefAbdullah Senussi and other officials.

"Today, the office of the prosecutor requested the ICC arrest warrants,"
Moreno-Ocampo told a press conference in The Hague, where the court is
based. The Argentine prosecutor said there was evidence "that Muammer
Gaddafi personally ordered attacks on innocent Libyan civilians".

Moreno-Ocampo said on Sunday that his office was "almost ready for trial"
and had "collected good and solid evidence to identify (those) who bear the
greatest responsibility." A panel of ICC judges will now decide whether to
accept or reject the prosecutor's application.

Protests against Gaddafi's four-decade rule began on February 15 with
Moreno-Ocampo saying thousands of people have been killed in the violence
and around 750,000 people forced to flee.

British foreign secretary William Hague called on the international
community to "fully support" the UN war crimes court.