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BY LAUREN ZIMA

The last free son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been captured.

Saif al-Islam, Moammar’s oldest son, was captured by revolutionaries in Libya as two of his aides tried to sneak him out to neighboring Niger. Saif is charged with crimes against humanity for his actions during the revolution earlier this year.

Saif was his father’s second in command, and CNN explains that international concern right now is that he doesn’t meet a similar fate.

MATTHEW CHANCE: “His father met a very kind of, death at the hands of mob essentially when he was taken last month near the town of Syrte. There are calls from the International Criminal Court in the Hague for him to face justice. The question at the moment is whether he will face trial inside Libya as many Libyan military commanders want or whether he will be transferred to the Hague to face a trial there.”

But The New Statesman says Libya will fight to have Saif tried there, and not with the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

“ … Libyan officials are keen to try him at home … Saif … in the past has drawn western support, appearing to be a liberal reformer. However, when unrest broke out in Libya, he supported his father's brutal crackdown.”

But Foreign Policy points out that getting Saif’s trial could mean big things for the ICC.

“ … it is … setting up an important test for the still young International Criminal Court and its mainly Western backers. … [Saif’s] arrival in the Hague would be a major coup for a court that has struggled to get its hands on its most prominent targets...”

Saif had been in hiding since Tripoli fell to revolutionaries, telling the ICC last month that he was innocent. His capture leaves Gadhafi’s former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senoussi, as the sole remaining member of the regime still wanted by the ICC.