...boodling on the grand scale...
Security Council and the United States have imposed sanctions on a Libyan official over the alleged abuse and torture of
The Security Council and the U.S. said in separate statements late Tuesday that Osama al-Kuni is the de facto head of a detention center in the North African nation's west.
Libya emerged as a major conduit for African
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...after a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-backed uprising toppled and killed the country's longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse...
in 2011. The country subsequently slid into chaos, with rival governments and parliaments based in its western and eastern regions, each backed by different militias and tribes.
The al-Nasr Martyrs detention center is located in the western town of Zawiya, home of two of the country's most wanted human traffickers, Abdel-Rahman Milad, and militia leader Mohammed Kachlaf.
Both Milad and Kachlaf were sanctioned by the Security Council in 2018 over allegations of human trafficking and abuse of
A front man for the Libyan government did not answer calls seeking comment.
In its statement Tuesday, the U.N. sanctions committee said al-Kuni "has acted for or on behalf of or at the direction" of Milad and Kachlaf.
The Department of the Treasury blamed al-Kuni on "systematic exploitation of African
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
abuses."
It said he or others under his direction "have been involved in or facilitated the killing, exploitation, abuse, and extortion of
Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the Libyan government to hold al-Kuni and others implicated in human rights abuses accountable.
Libya holds
U.N.-commissioned Sherlocks said earlier this month that abuse and ill treatment of