TRIPOLI, Libya, May 8 (UPI) -- Charity leader Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son, Wednesday called for international observers to check the well-being of three Libyan nationals being detained by the United States at Guatanamo Bay in Cuba.
The Gadhafi International Foundation for Charity, al-Islam Gadhafi's charity, asked the International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights groups to ask U.S. authorities to allow observers to go to Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo where al Qaida and Taliban prisoners are being held. The prisoners were captured in Afghanistan.
"It is a test of the world's conscience," the foundation said in a statement. "We raise our voice to have the international community stand by the rules of justice and fairness in order to avoid a precedent in Guantanamo where suspicion of committing a crime would be considered a justification for violating human freedom and pride."
Coalition forces in Afghanistan are thought to have captured at least one Libyan who was a senior al Qaida member. Pakistan handed over Ibn al-Shaykh Libi to U.S. forces at the start of this year. The al Qaida member allegedly ran paramilitary training for the group.
Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is suspected of masterminding Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon just outside of Washington.
