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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyans celebrated late into the evening Saturday the reported capture of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, nabbed in a desert gunbattle after an 18-day stakeout.

Senior Libyan military officials said they believe the potential Gadhafi successor was trying to make his way to neighboring Niger, where a brother, Saadi, was granted asylum.

Revolutionary fighters caught the man wanted by the International Criminal Court between the southwestern oasis town of Obari and southern town of Sabha, military commanders in Tripoli told CNN.

The 39-year-old, the last Gadhafi fugitive, was taken to the city of Zintan in the western mountains. Top officials in the town rejoiced over the development.

Saif al-Islam had been on the run since shortly after the fall of his father's Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital in August.

"I hope that this is the beginning of a state of freedom, transparency and lawfulness," acting Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib told reporters in Zintan. "In the name of the great nation, we would like to allay your fears and tell you that Saif and those who were with him will be tried fairly. They are ensured all their rights under the law. These are the same rights that our nation didn't have for 42 years."

The ICC in the Netherlands wants Saif al-Islam for alleged crimes against humanity, including murder, committed during the uprising this year.

But officials in Libya also indicated they would like to put Saif al-Islam on trial.

Although he held no high-level government office, Saif al-Islam was considered by ICC prosecutors to be Moammar Gadhafi's "unspoken successor and the most influential person with his inner circle," according to an arrest warrant issued in June.

The Gadhafi regime formulated a state policy that included quelling demonstrations by lethal force, attacking civilians and imprisoning hundreds, according to the warrant. Saif al-Islam "exercised control over crucial parts of the state apparatus, including finances and logistics and had the powers of a de facto prime minister."

ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the arrest was "good news."

"That is very important because we consider him -- the judges consider him -- the principal, with his father Moammar, of the crimes committed in Libya after February 13," he said. "He's arrested, he's alive, and now he will face justice and that is the most important news."

Moreno-Ocampo will travel to Libya next week to coordinate efforts to bring Saif al-Islam to justice, an ICC spokeswoman said Saturday.

Who is Saif al-Islam Gadhafi?

"The ICC has had indirect contact with Saif al-Islam Gadhafi through intermediaries during which they discussed what would happen if he surrendered. The last contact was 25 days ago," spokeswoman Florence Olara told CNN.

ICC spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah told CNN that Libya has an obligation to surrender Saif al-Islam to the ICC. If Libya wants to conduct a trial, it needs to submit a request to judges and show its legal system is capable of properly handling such a proceeding.

El-Keib emphasized that "we will deal with this under our legal system," but he said the country intends to communicate and work with the ICC.

"We'll get to a point where we can take care of this issue easily," El Keib said. "We definitely are interested in respecting the will of our people and also the national interests that we trust that the world will also appreciate."

Justice Minister Mohammad Al-Alagy said he doubts Libyan courts would want to try Saif al-Islam for crimes against humanity.

"We will weigh out the accusations against Saif Al Islam al-Gadhafi. Afterward, we will know what crimes to try him with. He's charged with killing and taking the nation's money and ... hiring mercenaries. Those are crimes the Libyan nation will currently try him for. We can't move ahead of ourselves with inaccurate accusations. We will move forward with this investigation."

Military commanders told CNN they want the National Transitional Council to ensure Saif al-Islam is tried in their country.

Outbursts of celebratory gunfire, the honking of horns and cries of joy could be heard in Tripoli as reports of his capture spread.

Othman Mliegta, commander of the Al Qa'aq brigades, said he had been told that Saif al-Islam was slightly injured in the clashes that took place when the fighters attempted to capture him but is in good health.

A picture released by Libya's National Transitional Council purportedly of Saif al-Islam appeared to show him half-lying on a low bed with bandages wrapped around the fingers of his right hand.

A military commander from Zintan, Fathi Al-Ayed, told CNN that the injuries had been sustained in previous clashes rather than the firefight that led to his capture in the early hours of Saturday.

Al-Ayed, who was in Obari at the time, said fighters from the Zintan Brigades had been following a vehicle convoy. As they approached, the convoy tried to flee, firing on the fighters, who returned fire.

When the convoy was eventually stopped, Saif al-Islam was arrested, along with up to six others. They were taken to Zintan.

Mliegta said those with Saif al-Islam when he was caught did not include his father's former intelligence chief Abdulla al-Sanussi, also wanted by the ICC.

French and British officials, part of the NATO mission that supported the rebels since February, welcomed the capture.

"Saif al-Islam no longer poses a threat to peace and security in Libya," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "His arrest will allow the Libyan people to move on to the challenge of rebuilding their country."

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The suspect's father, who ruled the country for more than 40 years, was killed last month near Sirte after his capture by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council.

Asked about guarantees of Saif al-Islam's safety, Mliegta said he would be treated in the same way as any other detainee.

National Transitional Council military liaison Abdelrahman Busin told CNN that any injuries Saif al-Islam had sustained would be treated.

There was still some secrecy over his movements, Busin said, but he could guarantee Saif al-Islam's human rights would be respected if he is handed over to authorities in Tripoli.

Giving his reaction to the news of the arrest, Busin said: "I think the Libyan people can finally actually breathe a big sigh, finally relax to some extent, because he has been threatening to come back with revenge for some time now. So, it's a close for many, many people."

A glimpse into the Gadhafi family

Once seen as a possible successor to his father and an advocate of reform, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi became a vocal defender of his father's brutal regime.

His whereabouts had been unknown for months. At the end of August he made a call to Syria's Rai TV, in which he said he was speaking from a suburb of the capital, Tripoli, and urged Libyans to rise up against the rebels.

Saif al-Islam, whose mother is Gadhafi's second wife, Safia, is the second-oldest son of the late strongman. He was educated at the London School of Economics and speaks fluent English.

CNN's Kareem Khadder and Matthew Chance contributed to this report.

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text: tell

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text: uprising

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text: 's

text: unspoken

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text: the

text: most

text: influential

text: person

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text: his

text: inner

text: circle

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text: Gadhafi

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text: warrant

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text: Moreno

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text: news

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text: principal

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text: his

text: father

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text: crimes

text: committed

text: in

text: Libya

text: after

text: February

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: 's

text: arrested

text: he

text: 's

text: alive

text: and

text: now

text: he

text: will

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text: justice

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text: that

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text: the

text: most

text: important

text: news

text: Moreno

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text: will

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text: to

text: Libya

text: next

text: week

text: to

text: coordinate

text: efforts

text: to

text: bring

text: Saif

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text: Islam

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text: justice

text: an

text: ICC

text: spokeswoman

text: said

text: Saturday

text: Who

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text: Islam

text: Gadhafi

text: The

text: ICC

text: has

text: had

text: indirect

text: contact

text: with

text: Saif

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text: intermediaries

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text: they

text: discussed

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text: he

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text: last

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text: days

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text: ICC

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text: Abdallah

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: Libya

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text: surrender

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

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text: the

text: ICC

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text: Libya

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text: to

text: conduct

text: a

text: trial

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text: needs

text: to

text: submit

text: a

text: request

text: to

text: judges

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text: show

text: its

text: legal

text: system

text: is

text: capable

text: of

text: properly

text: handling

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text: a

text: proceeding

text: El

text: Keib

text: emphasized

text: that

text: we

text: will

text: deal

text: with

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text: under

text: our

text: legal

text: system

text: but

text: he

text: said

text: the

text: country

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text: communicate

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text: work

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text: ICC

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text: point

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text: care

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text: issue

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text: Keib

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text: world

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text: Al

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text: investigation

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text: commanders

text: told

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text: National

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text: Council

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text: ensure

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text: could

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text: the

text: Al

text: Qa'aq

text: brigades

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: told

text: that

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: was

text: slightly

text: injured

text: in

text: the

text: clashes

text: that

text: took

text: place

text: when

text: the

text: fighters

text: attempted

text: to

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text: is

text: in

text: good

text: health

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text: picture

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text: Libya

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text: National

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text: Saif

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text: low

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text: his

text: right

text: hand

text: A

text: military

text: commander

text: from

text: Zintan

text: Fathi

text: Al

text: Ayed

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: the

text: injuries

text: had

text: been

text: sustained

text: in

text: previous

text: clashes

text: rather

text: than

text: the

text: firefight

text: that

text: led

text: to

text: his

text: capture

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: hours

text: of

text: Saturday

text: Al

text: Ayed

text: who

text: was

text: in

text: Obari

text: at

text: the

text: time

text: said

text: fighters

text: from

text: the

text: Zintan

text: Brigades

text: had

text: been

text: following

text: a

text: vehicle

text: convoy

text: As

text: they

text: approached

text: the

text: convoy

text: tried

text: to

text: flee

text: firing

text: on

text: the

text: fighters

text: who

text: returned

text: fire

text: When

text: the

text: convoy

text: was

text: eventually

text: stopped

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

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text: to

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text: others

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text: with

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text: Islam

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text: he

text: was

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text: not

text: include

text: his

text: father

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text: former

text: intelligence

text: chief

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text: al

text: Sanussi

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text: wanted

text: by

text: the

text: ICC

text: French

text: and

text: British

text: officials

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: NATO

text: mission

text: that

text: supported

text: the

text: rebels

text: since

text: February

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text: the

text: capture

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: no

text: longer

text: poses

text: a

text: threat

text: to

text: peace

text: and

text: security

text: in

text: Libya

text: said

text: British

text: Foreign

text: Secretary

text: William

text: Hague

text: His

text: arrest

text: will

text: allow

text: the

text: Libyan

text: people

text: to

text: move

text: on

text: to

text: the

text: challenge

text: of

text: rebuilding

text: their

text: country

text: Time.com

text: The

text: reformer

text: who

text: refused

text: to

text: reform

text: The

text: suspect

text: 's

text: father

text: who

text: ruled

text: the

text: country

text: for

text: more

text: than

text: years

text: was

text: killed

text: last

text: month

text: near

text: Sirte

text: after

text: his

text: capture

text: by

text: forces

text: loyal

text: to

text: the

text: National

text: Transitional

text: Council

text: Asked

text: about

text: guarantees

text: of

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: 's

text: safety

text: Mliegta

text: said

text: he

text: would

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text: treated

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text: the

text: same

text: way

text: as

text: any

text: other

text: detainee

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text: Transitional

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text: military

text: liaison

text: Abdelrahman

text: Busin

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: any

text: injuries

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: had

text: sustained

text: would

text: be

text: treated

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text: secrecy

text: over

text: his

text: movements

text: Busin

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text: he

text: could

text: guarantee

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: 's

text: human

text: rights

text: would

text: be

text: respected

text: if

text: he

text: is

text: handed

text: over

text: to

text: authorities

text: in

text: Tripoli

text: Giving

text: his

text: reaction

text: to

text: the

text: news

text: of

text: the

text: arrest

text: Busin

text: said

text: I

text: think

text: the

text: Libyan

text: people

text: can

text: finally

text: actually

text: breathe

text: a

text: big

text: sigh

text: finally

text: relax

text: to

text: some

text: extent

text: because

text: he

text: has

text: been

text: threatening

text: to

text: come

text: back

text: with

text: revenge

text: for

text: some

text: time

text: now

text: So

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: close

text: for

text: many

text: many

text: people

text: A

text: glimpse

text: into

text: the

text: Gadhafi

text: family

text: Once

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text: as

text: a

text: possible

text: successor

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text: father

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text: an

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text: reform

text: Saif

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text: vocal

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text: father

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text: regime

text: His

text: whereabouts

text: had

text: been

text: unknown

text: for

text: months

text: At

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: August

text: he

text: made

text: a

text: call

text: to

text: Syria

text: 's

text: Rai

text: TV

text: in

text: which

text: he

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: speaking

text: from

text: a

text: suburb

text: of

text: the

text: capital

text: Tripoli

text: and

text: urged

text: Libyans

text: to

text: rise

text: up

text: against

text: the

text: rebels

text: Saif

text: al

text: Islam

text: whose

text: mother

text: is

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: second

text: wife

text: Safia

text: is

text: the

text: second

text: oldest

text: son

text: of

text: the

text: late

text: strongman

text: He

text: was

text: educated

text: at

text: the

text: London

text: School

text: of

text: Economics

text: and

text: speaks

text: fluent

text: English

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Kareem

text: Khadder

text: and

text: Matthew

text: Chance

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: The PM says what about Saif?

answer: "I hope that this is the beginning of a state of freedom, transparency and lawfulness,"

text: "I hope that this is the beginning of a state of freedom, transparency and lawfulness,"

question: what says ICC about lybia

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Despite the rain, "Slumdog Millionaire" shone brightly at the British Academy Awards Sunday, scooping a clutch of honors.

"Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle shields composer A.R. Rahman from the rain as they arrive Sunday at the BAFTA awards in London.

Not even the drizzle could dampen Danny Boyle's spirits as "Slumdog," his Mumbai-set rags to riches movie phenomenon won a remarkable seven awards at the glitziest night in the UK film calendar.

"You make a film like this and you just hope and pray it will be seen by a few people," the British director told CNN. "And the journey it's been on, the reception it's had around the world, has just been extraordinary." Watch Danny Boyle, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto talking about "Slumdog" on the red carpet.

As was widely expected, following its haul of four Golden Globes last month including Best Motion Picture, "Slumdog" took the Best Film award.

"I'd like to acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of our cast," said the film's producer, Christian Colson who accepted the award. "The film you saw is the film Danny Boyle imagined and it's very rare you can say that. He dreamed the dream, 24-hours a day, seven days a week for two and a half years."

Boyle's labors were recognized by the Academy, handing him the Director award, which he can add to the BAFTA he won for debut feature "Shallow Grave" in 1995.

"Slumdog" has touched audiences and critics alike. Boyle thinks the film's extraordinary effect is down to its universal message of hope.

"It's the contrast I think between where the kid comes from and what he achieves," said Boyle. "And he achieves everything on his own terms, and that gives you a kind of hope, really, which we all, no matter how romantic it is, we all need that." Watch Bollywood legend and "Slumdog" star Anil Kapoor talking about the "Slumdog" phenomenon.

"Slumdog" also won the Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, Music, Sound and Editing awards. Closest rival David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which was up for 11 awards, bagged only three.

These included a richly-deserved Make Up & Hair award for the feat of transforming Brad Pitt into an octogenarian baby to tell the curious story of a man who is born old and gets younger as he ages.

Actress Kate Winslet also continued her success streak, scoring the Leading Actress honor for her powerful portrayal of a former-Nazi concentration camp guard in Stephen Daldry's "The Reader." Conversely, Winslet both won and lost the award having been nominated twice in the same category, which included Meryl Streep for "Doubt," and Kristin Scott Thomas for "I've Loved You So Long."

But most eyes were on the actress to see if there would be a repeat performance of the breathlessly incoherent acceptance speech she made at the Golden Globes last month after winning two awards.

"These are really special moments. And I don't want to waste them," Winslet told CNN on the red carpet before going on to accept her award with no tears or obvious emotion. Instead she simply thanked her parents and the late Anthony Minghella and the late Sydney Pollack, two of the film's producers. Watch Kate Winslet talking about her "amazing year" on the red carpet.

Reformed Hollywood badboy Mickey Rourke provided the only mild controversy of the night with a few expletives in his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award.

"Thank you Darren Aronofsky who gave me a second chance after I'd f***ed up my career for 15 years. Such a pleasure to be here, and be out of the darkness," he told the audience.

Earlier, the actor told CNN how things have changed for him since the accolades started pouring in for his extraordinary performance in Aronofsky's "The Wrestler."

"I got a whole bunchy of new friends that I don't need," Rourke said. "But I've also heard from some people that I'd worked with years ago that I'd burned bridges with that have come around.

"It's taken me a long time to change and come back and do things the right way. I'm just grateful for the second chance."

There were also gongs for Spain's Penelope Cruz, who took home Supporting Actress for her fiery scene-stealing performance as an unhinged artist in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," and the late Heath Ledger whose chilling reinvention of the Joker in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" was recognized with the Supporting Actor award.

Now, as attention turns to the upcoming Oscars, "Slumdog's" BAFTA wins will only increase the momentum behind the Best Picture nominee. After success at both the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs, Kate Winslet could also be justified in looking forward to the Oscars with confidence.

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Washington (CNN) -- Three U.S. Navy SEALs face criminal charges after the alleged mastermind of one of the most notorious crimes against Americans in Iraq accused them of punching him after his capture, the military said Wednesday.

Ahmed Hashim Abed -- thought to be behind the slayings and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja in 2004 and captured in summer -- made the accusations against the three servicemen, said Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, a spokeswoman for U.S. Central Command.

A civilian lawyer for one of three SEALs said his client and the other SEALs declined a nonjudicial resolution to the case, a step sometimes called a "captain's mast." The servicemen say they did not harm the detainee in any way and they want their names cleared in a court-martial so they can continue their careers in the Navy, said the attorney, Neil Puckett.

Because the charges against Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and Petty Officer Julio Heurtas are the military equivalent of misdemeanors, they will go before a special court-martial, which is for less serious offenses than those heard in a general court-martial. If found guilty, they could be sentenced to a maximum of a year in a military prison, demotion to the lowest Navy rank, a cut in pay and a bad conduct discharge.

But if found innocent of all charges, they would be able to continue their careers with no record of the case in their personnel files.

The three SEALs are with their unit in Norfolk, Virginia. They will make an initial appearance before a military judge on December 7. The court-martial is scheduled to begin in January.

The attorney said he expects the SEALs will not waive their constitutional right to confront the accuser in court, which could cause a logistical challenge. Abed is believed to be in a U.S. military detention center overseas, and it is unclear if the military would want him brought to the United States for the court-martial.

The four contractors, one of whom was a former Navy SEAL, were working for the Blackwater company when they were attacked in Falluja in 2004. After they were killed with hand grenades and rifles, their bodies were set on fire and dragged through the streets. The bodies of two of them were hung from a bridge in Falluja, an image that was broadcast around the world.

Four days after the attack, the U.S. Marines launched a major offensive inside Falluja, in part to help find the killers.

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question: who he was captured last summer?

answer: Ahmed Hashim Abed

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question: What has Ahmed Hashim Abed been accused of?

answer: the slayings and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja in 2004

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question: who is accused of planning the '04 slayings and mutilations of 4 U.S. contractors?

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(CNN) -- The managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Fund is missing after his glider plane crashed into a lake in Morocco, the state news agency of the United Arab Emirates reported Friday.

Authorities were searching for Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is a brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Sheikh Ahmed is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Zayed Foundation for Charity and Humanitarian Works, said WAM, the news agency.

The plane went down in the northwestern city of Skhirat, according to Morocco's official news agency, MAP.

Forbes' 2009 rankings of "The World's Most Powerful People" rated the missing sheikh at No. 27.

The pilot was rescued in good condition, WAM said.

A spokesman for the fund did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The sovereign-wealth fund, which was established in 1976, is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.

In an interview in January with Germany's business daily newspaper Handelsblatt, Sheikh Ahmed said he preferred not to use the sovereign-wealth fund label to describe the investment fund.

"We prefer to be seen simply as a globally diversified investment institution, with the difference being that our owner is the government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi," he said. "ADIA's sole mission, which has not changed in over 30 years, is to secure and maintain the current and future welfare of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi."

Asked about news reports that ADIA's global assets range between $300 billion and $800 billion, Sheikh Ahmed hewed to the secretive style that has marked the fund.

"As a matter of policy, ADIA does not disclose its assets under management," he said. But he noted that his brother, the president, who is also ADIA's chairman, "has stated publicly that some of the highest estimates seen in the media have been exaggerated."

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question: Sheikh Ahmed is the executive of where ?

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question: Who is Ahmed brother of?

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question: What is his rank ?

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question: What number is Ahmed on forbes?

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question: who is ranked 27 on forbes list

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question: Who is being searched for?

answer: Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,

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question: where was the crash

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MIAMI, Florida (CNN)  -- You don't expect to hear an electric saw in church, but Kevin Cross uses the tool along with a frying pan, blender and toaster oven to help free people from debt.

Kevin Cross holds the boards steady as a woman uses a reciprocating saw to cut up her credit cards.

This money missionary helps people destroy those little plastic shovels, otherwise known as credit cards, that so many people have used to dig their way to financial ruin.

"It's such an easy message. It really is," says Cross, an ex-con who credits religion for his conversion from thief to money coach. "That's why it doesn't take a rocket scientist, it doesn't take a CPA to do it. A first-year bookkeeper can figure out that you can't spend more than you make," he said.

Earlier this month, Cross spoke to about 150 people at the Miami Vineyard Community Church where Kevin Fischer is the pastor.

"You've got to plan your spending; you've got to give back a part to God. You've got to save for the future, and you've got to learn to be content," said Fischer.

Fischer says the pressure of money and debt is enormous on people, especially more recently.

"We should change the marriage vows from 'till death do us part' to 'debt do us part' because that's what's going on, and it's so true," he said.

Cross is breathless. As he speaks to the crowd, he's a non-stop, doesn't-come-up-for-air, high-octane money missionary.

He uses Christian principles, prayer, common sense, and a few good one-liners to get his message across.

"I had a 401k, it went to a 201k, went to 101k, now it's just K," he said as the crowd laughs. "I'm thinking I got a thousand bucks left, and I can retire for about a week."

Cross presides over a day-long sermon on how people can make their lives better by taking control of their spending. He says he tries to demonstrate the long-term effects of irresponsible borrowing. Simple stuff, he says, will make people more content and give them the cushion necessary to give back.

His new book is "Building Your Financial Fortress in 52 Days."

"I want to get people to have more margin, so instead of investing in stuff, and stuff that doesn't last, they can invest in people's lives," he said.

The tools he uses to hammer home his message go beyond his overhead TV screens, charts and calculators. Cross invites his guests, who pay $25 a head to hear his message, to come up to the front of the room for what he calls the beginning of "freedom."

On a table, sit a frying pan, a toaster oven, a blender and a wooden sawhorse and an electric saw. About six people cut up their credit cards and bake them in the toaster oven as if they were TV dinners.

Others sliced and diced their Visa, MasterCard and Amex, before mixing the pieces with Spam in the blender.

At one point, Cross called for some cooking oil as one lady stood over her credit card-saute with a spatula.

Holding a plate full of the little pieces of credit card, Cross said, "This looks like a melted credit card, but this really represents freedom in these people's lives, because it's the first step."

Cellie Mayol says she used to have 10 or 11 credit cards. She put on protective goggles, taped her cards to a two-by-four and shredded them with a reciprocating saw.

"It just felt like the right thing to do to get me started on the right path," she said. "The Sawzall [reciprocating saw] was exhilarating. I love that feeling."

Kevin Cross wasn't always this way.

About 20 years ago, as a teen, he embezzled about $300,000 from the sheriff's office in Broward County, Florida. Yes, the sheriff's office.

Cross was a bookkeeper and skimmed money from an account filled by payments from court judgments. He invested the stolen funds and profited about $50,000 before he was caught. He was charged with fraud and theft, and spent minimal time in jail.

He paid half the money back. But, he says, that was another life ago.

Cross says it took him four years to crawl out of his own hole; He was $100,000 in debt.

"I could spend a thousand dollars a day," Cross told the crowd.

"Although, I'd have to spend about two days recovering from that -- you know what I mean," he said. "I completely sabotaged my life, all in one year. I did more damage in one year than most people do in their whole life."

One night, as a 20 year old, he says, he was parking cars at Miami's Hyatt Regency hotel. He was wearing black ladies garden shoes, because he couldn't afford the black sneakers that were part of his uniform.

A Jaguar pulled up, and inside was one of Miami's most recognizable newsmen, anchorman Dwight Lauderdale. He took the car, turned on the radio, and heard a Christian financial expert say, "There is hope for the hopeless. All you have to do is give your heart and soul to the Lord."

"And then, I thought, oh Lord, if you're there. I need you."

"I wasn't going to find satisfaction in money. The only place I was going to find it was outside of that, and I found it, in turning my heart over to God."

He became a CPA and spends one full day each week doing free financial counseling for needy people.

He says he no longer gets high on money. He only helps people understand that they can manage their money in a way that can help themselves, their families and others.

Juan and Beth Diaz were at the seminar. They said they ran up their credit cards and that their home, south of Miami, went into foreclosure last year.

"America has been a very greedy, give-me-now country for so long, and I think it's a wake-up call for everybody that we can live differently," said Beth Diaz.

Juan Diaz, her husband, says doing away with credit cards has helped them. The couple plans to be debt free in about 18 months.

"They're telling you: 'Use me, you need me' -- and they own you. We've gotten to the point where we just don't need credit cards," he explained.

"Everything we do, we plan, and if we don't have the money, we just don't buy it," he said.

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answer: toaster oven

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answer: help free people from debt.

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question: Who teaches about the evil of credit cards

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answer: frying pan, a toaster oven, a blender and a wooden sawhorse and an electric saw.

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question: What do Kevin Cross teach churchgoers?

answer: This money missionary helps people destroy those little plastic shovels, otherwise known as credit cards, that so many people have used to dig their way to financial ruin.

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question: What was Cross convicted of as a teenager?

answer: fraud and theft,

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Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, is the author of the new book, "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861" and author, co-author or editor of 32 other books.

Harold Holzer says Obama represents validation of Lincoln's hope of equal opportunity for all.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- They are big shoes to fill by any standard, political or historical.

Pointing to his oversize, specially made boots, Abraham Lincoln once confided that he may have been slow to put his foot down, but once he did, he never went back.

That's a lesson worth learning for any president-elect. And few incoming chief executives have been as conscious of the 16th president as the 44th: Barack Obama.

The new president-elect wrote about Lincoln in his acclaimed books. He not only chose to announce his candidacy for the presidency on Lincoln's birthday, in 2006, but did so outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech in 1858 and where he had his headquarters as president-elect.

The myriad comparisons between the two skinny, big-eared Illinoisans -- Obama's own fond description -- are already entering the realm of modern legend. Both were believed too inexperienced to be president. See iReporters don stovepipe hats to pay tribute to Lincoln

Both were long-shot underdogs for their party's nomination. Yet each went on not only to win, but to nominate the defeated party favorite (who happened to be a senator from New York) as secretary of state. William H. Seward was Lincoln's choice, Hillary Clinton is Obama's.

But of course there are substantial differences: Lincoln got his education "by littles," he once embarrassingly admitted, spending less than a year all told in primitive one-room schoolhouses.

Obama was superbly educated at Columbia University and Harvard Law. One man was a Republican, the other is a Democrat.

And while Barack Obama scored an impressive victory, the nation divided bitterly over Lincoln's 39 percent plurality in a four-person race, to the degree that the Electoral College validation remained in question -- much more like Bush vs. Gore -- as late as February 1861, while seven Southern states seceded rather than accept a Lincoln presidency.

Yet fascinating similarities predominate. Both men wrote best-selling books (yes, Lincoln, too: he brought out a hugely popular edition of his Lincoln-Douglas debates).

Both won fame through their transcendent oratory. Both got into political trouble over their church affiliations -- Lincoln for leaving his church too soon, Obama for not leaving soon enough.

Both refused to take pets along to the White House, but promised to shower their small children with pets once they arrived (the Lincolns left their mangy dog Fido behind and President-elect Obama has vowed to get a dog for his girls once settled in Washington).

He might have to do better. Willie and Tad Lincoln eventually obtained kittens, turkeys and ponies.

And here is another fascinating side story. Both men felt the need to make one final visit -- before their life-altering presidencies -- for reunions with the women, neither one a natural mother, who helped raise them.

Obama, of course, went back to Honolulu to see his gravely ill grandmother right before Election Day; Lincoln, right before Inauguration Day, visited rural Charleston, Illinois, to say goodbye to his aged stepmother -- who wound up outliving him.

But most extraordinary of all, surely, is the fact that Barack Obama's victory serves to help complete the "unfinished work" Abraham Lincoln spoke about in his Gettysburg Address: that America fulfill its dream of equal opportunity regardless of race.

Lincoln, of course, advanced black freedom and black voting rights; Obama represents the validation of those elusive aspirations.

It is not difficult to understand why so many Americans see Barack Obama as the second coming -- of Abraham Lincoln, if not more. Lincoln once declared, "We cannot escape history," and after years of national indifference to, or defiance of, the lessons of the past, our next president seems to love, comprehend, and use the past to illuminate the future. iReport.com: Can you speak like Lincoln?

Comparisons can invite problems, too. On his triumphant election night, Obama properly noted that Lincoln faced a crisis far graver than our own, then quoted Lincoln's hope that "while passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."

Those words came right out of Lincoln's first inaugural address. But in fact they were written not by Lincoln himself -- rare for America's greatest writer-president -- but by his incoming Secretary of State Seward. Lincoln later performed an editing miracle to transform the draft into near-poetry.

Using this lesson, Obama should be asking Hillary Clinton for a draft.

But that probably won't happen. Sometimes reality trumps even history.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Harold Holzer.

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question: what have in common Obama and Lincoln?

answer: Both were long-shot underdogs for their party's nomination.

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question: Who were underdogs?

answer: Both

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question: who is harold holzer

answer: co-chairman of the U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission,

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question: What are there many differences in?

answer: education

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question: what says holzer?

answer: Obama represents validation of Lincoln's hope of equal opportunity for all.

text: Obama represents validation of Lincoln's hope of equal opportunity for all.

question: Who has much in common with Lincoln?

answer: Barack Obama.

text: Barack Obama.