Colonial sentiment or not, the French plan is to hand off Mali to U.N. and African forces and exit completely after elections in July.

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When the states themselves don't want to get involved and hand something over to the U.N.

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"Let's be preemptive here and contain it now before it does get out of hand, " said David Kaatrud of the U.N.

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If, on the other hand, Justice Chaudhry is being offered an arrangement that does not term his sacking illegal, then the PML-N and some top lawyer leaders may have agreed to let Pervez Musharraf off the hook.

BBC: Clouded details of Pakistan deal

Unless Libya moves swiftly to obey this morning's order of the ICC to halt the domestic prosecution of Mr. Al-Senussi, and hand him over to the ICC immediately, Libya will before long become a pariah state, subject to U.N. sanctions.

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