The relatives of Muammar Gaddafi who escaped to Algeria are suing NATO for "war crimes" over the assisted murder of the Libyan leader, the family lawyer announced.

Gaddafi's family will sue NATO in the International Criminal Court in the Hague on "war crime" charges, France-based Europe1 radio station quoted Gaddafi's family lawyer Marcel Ceccaldi as saying on Wednesday.

 

The suit refers to the capture of Gaddafi as he was trying to make his way out of Sirte. Gaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte after his convoy was attacked by NATO aircraft, a strike that was claimed by the French Air Force. The Gaddafi survived the strike and hid in a drainage pipe where he was captured, severely battered and murdered by a violent blood thirsty gang of NATO sponsored mercenaries.

Gaddafi's corpse was taken to Misrata where it was put on display at a shopping mall for four days in a commercial freezer before it was buried at a secret location in the Libyan desert.

"NATO helicopters opened fire on Gaddafi's convoy...This convoy did not pose any threat to civilians. It was an operation to eliminate theLibyan leader, planned by the North Atlantic alliance," Gaddafi family's lawyer Ceccaldi explained. The lawyer also criticized the decision to publicly display Gaddafi's corpse at a shopping center in Misrata for four days.

NATO has, of course, denied that its air strike against the convoy getting out of Sirte was the product of a targeted killing attempt on the former Libyan leader.