DAKAR, Senegal – A lawyer representing one of the sons of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi confirmed that Niger has given Saadi Gaddafi permission to leave the country. Lawyer Nick Kaufman told The Associated Press by telephone that he had received a letter from Niger's foreign affairs minister saying he had no objection to letting Saadi Gaddafi leave, so long as another nation is willing to receive him. “He's been given permission to leave by the foreign minister — that is correct," said Kaufman. Saadi fled to Niger last year as his father's regime crumbled. He has been held under what Kaufman described as “virtual house arrest" since then. The younger Gaddafi is still the subject of a United Nations travel ban. He is not wanted by the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile, shortly before he was extradited to Libya, Abdullah Senussi was questioned in Mauritania by a Lebanese team led by the country's Foreign Minister about the disappearance in Libya in 1978 of Lebanese cleric Sheikh Musa Sadr. Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour along with Lebanese judge Hasan Shami and Foreign Ministry official Haitham Joumaa, interviewed the former Libyan intelligence chief last Sunday, Lebanese government sources are reported as saying. – Agencies
