ICC Reviews Gadhafi Warrant

While war rages, the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor makes a bid to have war crimes charges pressed against Gadhafi's regime.

The International Criminal Court is now reviewing a request from its top prosecutor to issue warrants seeking the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and others in his inner circle for charges of war crimes. Luis Moreno-Ocampo handed over the request to a three-judge panel in The Hague, Netherlands, to determine if there were grounds to pursue Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and Abdullah Senussi, Gadhafi's chief of intelligence, on charges that they were responsible for torturing and killing civilians during Libya's ongoing civil war. If the panel agrees to a warrant, it would mark one of the quickest processing times for an ICC prosecution of war crimes in the court's history, as the case only stretches back to the outbreak of violence in February.