France: Gadhafi Could Possibly Stay in Libya

[Feuer Frei!]

France's foreign minister suggested Wednesday that a possible way out of Libya's civil war would be to allow Moammar Gadhafi to stay in the country if he relinquishes power.Gadhafi insists he will neither step down nor flee the country he has led for four decades. With the NATO-led air campaign against Gadhafi's forces entering its fifth month and the fighting in a stalemate, the international community is seeking exit strategies.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris on Wednesday with three rebel leaders from the western port city of Misrata who are seeking aid and arms to move toward Tripoli. Sarkozy announced no specific measures in response.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said France wants to keep "a very close link" with the rebels "to see how we can help.

Asked whether Gadhafi could stay in Libya under house arrest, for example, Juppe said on LCI television Wednesday: "One of the hypotheses that is envisaged is that he stays in Libya, on one condition ... that he clearly steps aside from Libya's political life. This is what we are waiting for before launching a political process."
The rebels initially insisted that Gadhafi leave the country, and one of those who met Wednesday with Sarkozy maintained that view - while others are not ruling out the possibility that he could stay in Libya if he gives up power.

"I don't think there is a place for him (in Libya). He is a criminal now," Souleiman Fortia, the National Transitional Council's Misrata representative, told reporters after the meeting with the French president.
Misrata rebel military leaders Ramadan Zarmouh and Ahmed Hachem also met with Sarkozy.


France has played a driving role in the NATO-led campaign of airstrikes, mandated by the U.N. to protect civilians from a crackdown by Gadhafi's forces on an uprising against his rule, amid revolts this year around the Arab world.

SOURCE (http://www.military.com/news/article/france-gadhafi-could-possibly-stay-in-libya.html)

[Castout]

It would not work out. They have since rectified this position.

It wouldn't work out because Gaddafi understandably would still have in control of substantial amount of power in money and influence even if he leaves politics.

Things could get ugly if he stays.

[Skybird]

It's not one single man, it is a family clan of several highly poisenous vipers who have robbed the country and its people whereever they could, and still try to do so.

Also, at least one of his surviving sons has strong ambitions to not let the country go, but to keep it in order to rule it himself. And who knows what ambitions his daughter and the other sons suddenly show once their father has died. So far they just are happy to collect privileges like other people collect stamps, and to live in ridiculous wealth that they have stolen from the people.

Finally, whereever the Gaddafi sons showed up in foreign countries they illustrated what brutal, arrogant thugs they are. They collected records of police charges.

The clan must not just leave the country. They must leave life. So smile them out of office and power - if it helps to strip them of power, why not. And when they are exposed, send assassins - one for each of them. But if, like Castout suggests, the clan's power from money is more influential than its political functions, it is pointless to compliment them out of office first.

[Jimbuna]

What of this international warrant for crimes against humanity?

Does everybody simply forget about oor ignore its existence?