LIBYAN leader Muammer Gaddafi proposed on Wednesday repatriating the hold-out Arab fighters for the Taliban in the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz, in order to avert a massacre. If they were sent home, the Arab fighters, mostly Islamic militants, would “be judged and treated like other prisoners of war under UN supervision,” Gaddaffi was quoted by the news agency Jana as saying. Northern Alliance troops have been laying siege to Kunduz, the Taliban’s only remaining northern stronghold, for more than a week, aided by US warplane bombing raids. Gaddafi suggested that former South African president Nelson Mandela, ex-US president Jimmy Carter and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev form a “wisemen’s council” in order to find a solution to the stand-off in Kunduz. – AFP