He called the HIV crisis in Benghazi "an odious crime" and questioned who was behind it.

"This is something terrible, a catastrophe, an odious crime," Colonel Qaddafi said.

He said Israel was trying to exploit United States support and the Persian Gulf crisis "to commit odious crimes" in the occupied territories.

It said the suspect was "one of the terrorists implicated in these odious crimes," which occurred Sunday.

There can be no pardon, no forgetting this odious crime.

He is also known for the ruthlessness of his defence of persons accused of odious crimes.

For years this Parliament has wanted clear and common legislation for combating the trafficking and exploitation of human beings, which are odious and widespread crimes.

We therefore feel that the initiative by the Netherlands is part of a coherent and consistent approach to these particularly odious crimes on an international scale.

Yassin had odious crimes on his conscience.

Some of the prisoners condemned to death throughout the world have committed odious crimes, but that does not justify their being executed.