TRIPOLI, Libya, March 21 (UPI) -- Libya's National Transitional Council said it has reached an agreement with Mauritania on the extradition of a former Gadhafi intelligence chief.
Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagour said on Twitter he and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz reached agreement on extraditing former Gadhafi intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi while Shagour was in Mauritania's capital of Nouakchott last week, The Guardian reported.
A spokesman for the NTC repeated that message Wednesday, saying: "We have agreement from Mauritania to deliver Senussi to Libya where he will receive a fair trial. No date has been decided, but it will be very soon."
Senussi, 62, is in police custody in Nouakchott.
France is pressuring Mauritania for Senussi's extradition, as he was convicted in absentia by a French court for an attack on a French airliner in 1989 that killed 170 people, including 54 French nationals.
"There was a very close relationship with the Gadhafi regime, and considerable amounts of money from that era remain the country. The decision facing Mauritania is a complicated one," a source in Nouakchott told The Guardian.
