Keep up the pressure

Despite the difficulties in implementing the international arrest warrant against Muammar al-Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi, it is a good means of increasing the pressure, writes the liberal daily The Irish Times: "While the ICC has rightly considered purely the judicial merits of the case ... a demand by Gaddafi for amnesty and free passage to, say, Saudi Arabia may form part of an eventual deal to effect transition. At that point the security council may decide pragmatically that the greater good may require the warrant to go unenforced. Until then, however, it should remain in force, part of the panoply of measures that increase the political isolation of an illegitimate regime and a megalomaniac butcher of his own people."

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