Plot to relocate Gaddafi's son foiled

MEXICO CITY (AP):

Prosecutors said yesterday they broke up not one, but two Indiana Jones-style plots to "extract" the son of late dictator Moammar Gaddafi from Libya and bring him to Mexico as his father's regime crumbled.

The plan to sneak out al-Saadi Gaddafi involved piles of stolen passports, white-knuckle flights with pilots who refused to land in war-torn Libya, and luxury homes bought under false names in Mexico, according to Assistant Attorney General Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas.

He said it was led by a Canadian woman, a Danish man and two Mexican suspects who were charged this week with attempted immigrant trafficking, falsifying documents and organised crime.

Salinas said the group hired pilots to fly from Mexico to Kosovo, from there to the Tunisian capital of Tunis and on to Libya in July, but that attempt failed to extract the dictator's son.