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Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam was captured in a southern Libyan city along with two of his aides who were trying to smuggle him out of the country, a militia commander said on Saturday.

Bashir al-Tlayeb of the Zintan brigades said Seif al-Islam was caught in the desert town of Obari, near the southern city of Sabha about 400 miles (650 kilometers) south of Tripoli.

He didn't elaborate on how Seif al-Islam was captured,prix tod's, but said that he was brought to the city of Zintan, the home of one of the largest revolutionary brigades in Libya.

Al-Tlayeb said it would be up to the Libya's ruling National Transitional Council to decide on where the former Libyan leader would be tried.

He also said there was still no information about wanted former intelligence director Abdullah Senoussi or where he is located.

Seif al-Islam is the last of Muammar Gaddafi's sons to remain unaccounted for.

Born in 1972, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi is the oldest of seven children of Muammar and Safiya Gaddafi.

He drew Western favour in previous years by touting himself as a liberalising reformer but then staunchly backed his father in his brutal crackdown on rebels in the regime's final days.

Seif had gone underground after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces.

The ICC had earlier said it was in indirect negotiations with a son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi about his possible surrender for trial.

The International Criminal Court issued warrants on June 27 against Seif al-Islam as well as his father and Abdullah al-Senussi,chaussures ballerines femmes, the late dictator's intelligence chief, on charges of crimes against humanity in crushing anti-regime protests.

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