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COLONEL Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam was found fleeing Libya disguised as a camel herder. Saif, 39, was trying to sneak over the border to Niger dressed in the robes and turban of a nomad. When he was cornered, Saif fell to the ground, rubbed sand on his face and said: "My name is Abdul Salem, a camel keeper." Army commander Ahmed Amur led the swoop on British-educated Saif on a desert road near Obari. They were tipped off a target was heading their way and set an ambush. Saif was in the second of two 4x4s that stopped after several warning shots. When he got out he fell face down and grovelled. Amur � a professor of marine biology before the civil war � said: "He wanted to disguise himself. He said to us, 'Shoot.' When the rebels refused to shoot, and identified themselves, Saif told them, 'OK, shoot me, or take me to Zintan'." Libyans were also celebrating the capture of Gaddafi's security chief Abdullah al-Senussi, said to be behind the killing of 1,200 prisoners at Abu Salim jail in 1996. Gaddafi was shot dead in Sirte last month. Saif, now in Zintan, is at the centre of a diplomatic tug of war. Libyan authorities want to try him on home soil but the International Criminal Court in The Hague has indicted him for war crimes. Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt thinks he would get a fair trial in Libya. He said: "They want to show their government is different from the regime." Saif's capture could prove embarrassing for Labour as he had close ties withTony Blair and Lord Mandelson.