About those ICC charges against Netanyahu

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings. Now a witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Mr. Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This builds on the Guardian newspaper’s November report on a Qatar-linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Elicius Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan’s alleged assault victim. Elicius didn’t reply to requests for comment. Highgate said in a statement that it had worked on a file in defense of the ICC, but denied it was commissioned by a government entity or aimed at discrediting any individual.

The new witness statement is by a person familiar with that operation who requests anonymity. We’ve reviewed it along with supporting audio recordings. The statement was submitted to the FBI to request an inquiry and is known to several Members of Congress. It suggests the private intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Several ICC officials who became targets have been interviewed by the NCTV, the Dutch counterterror agency, two sources confirm.

In recordings, private investigators discuss their intelligence operation’s connection to what seems to be Qatar, which they call the “client country.” In writing, one investigator instructs others to say “client” to describe “Q country.” Two sources familiar with the intelligence operation tell us Qatar was ultimately the client.

The witness statement says that a source of Elicius’s had claimed—albeit without providing evidence—that Israel’s Mossad believed Mr. Khan to be a Qatari agent. This led the private intelligence team to discuss the ICC prosecutor.

“I spoke to the client about it,” the intelligence operation’s manager is heard saying in an Aug. 5 recording, “and they weren’t surprised that it had leaked that they were wrapping their arms around him.”
Around “KK”—Karim Khan—a researcher clarified.

“It’s not that long that they wrapped their arms around him,” the manager continued, per the recording and the witness statement. “It’s all in the context of issuing the warrant. That was basically the deal. He was like, ‘I want to issue the warrant, but I’m terrified to do it.’ And they said, ‘if you do it, then we’ll look after you.’”

The intelligence operation’s manager was asked whether the support came from an individual sheikh or from the Qatari state. He said, “No, it’s the state.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/04/qatar-reportedly-vowed-to-look-after-disgraced-icc-prosecutor-khan-if-he-targeted-netanyahu/

[SVPete]

The trouble isn’t over for Karim Khan. He’s the International Criminal Court prosecutor who requested arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders in 2024, shortly after learning he had been accused of sexual assault. He took leave in May 2025, and this month the court’s governors voted to advance disciplinary proceedings.

This timeline tells a lot about the ICC:

* Khan was accused in 2024;

* Khan took leave in May 2025;

* The ICC voted to "advance disciplinary proceedings" in April 2026.

The accusation against Khan was taken so seriously that it too a year and a half or two years for the ICC to decide to do ....... something.

Haters being what they are, the ICC will be all the more vociferous in their hatred of Israel. Israel probably does not mind that, plus or minus an aircraft carrier or two of uncertain reliability, she may have more active naval ships than the UK or France or Germany.