International Criminal Court to Rule on Gaddafi Arrest Warrant

A decision on the arrest warrant for embattled Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity is supposed to be made Monday by international crime court judges in Hague.

Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng is scheduled to read a three-judge bench's decision Monday on a request by The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC)'s prosecutor to have the Libyan leader and two of his closest allies, Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's de-facto prime minister, and his brother-in-law Abdullah Al-Senussi, arrested.

The ICC does not have a police force, and depends on member governments to enforce arrests. However, Libya is not an ICC member state and does not acknowledge the authority of the court.

It will be the second time the ICC's top accuser has a country's head of state in his sights, after an arrest warrant for Sudan's Omar al-Bashir was first issued in March 2009. The warrant is yet to be executed.

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