Libya says 1,100 dead in NATO 'war crimes'

Mohamed Zekri Mahjubi yesterday told foreign journalists in Tripoli he was seeking to prosecute NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Libyan courts for "war crimes."

"As NATO secretary general, Rasmussen is responsible for the actions of this organisation which has attacked an unarmed people, killing 1,108 civilians and wounding 4,537 others in bombardment of Tripoli and other cities and villages."

He drew up a list of charges.

Apart from war crimes, Mahjubi accused Rasmussen of trying to kill Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, "deliberate aggression against innocent civilians" and of "the murder of children."

Also, the NATO chief stood accused of "trying to overthrow the Libyan regime" and replace it with a rebel movement under its control to "take over the wealth" of oil-rich Libya.