Wanted by the International Criminal Court ICC on charges of crimes against humanity, he kept a low profile for a long time, even after his release from a prison in Zintan in However, in July , the year-old broke his silence and gave an interview to the New York Times magazine. With Libya set to hold a high-stakes presidential election on December 24, Saif al-Islam profited from this media exposure to announce his return to the political arena. It is not the first time his comeback has been heralded.
In the NYT interview, Saif al-Islam, sporting a greying beard and dressed in a black qamis traditional shirt embroidered with golden motifs and a black turban, did not say if he would run in the December election.
Pro-Gaddafi sentiment also lingers among a section of the population, disappointed by the chronic instability and violence that has roiled the country over the past decade. There is no more life here. Go to the gas station: there is no gas. We export oil and gas to Italy. We light half of Italy and we have power outages here.
Despite being under tight surveillance by the Algerian government, which is anxious to keep her quiet, she used a Syrian TV channel to call for Libyans to "revolt" against the new government. Libyan media outlets have reported that Aisha supported Algeria in a recent encounter against the Libyan football team, saying that the new Libyan side "does not represent her".
Col Gaddafi had long claimed that his adopted daughter Hanaa was killed in a US air strike in , when she was just 18 months old. However, since the revolution there has been growing evidence that Hanaa is still alive, although her current status is unknown. Video footage has emerged of Hanaa playing with her father and brothers several years after the bombing. Documents found in Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound show medical documents and even a British Council certificate under the name of Hanaa Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan media sources report that Hanaa qualified as a doctor and worked at the Tripoli Medical Centre for several years.
On 20 October, exactly a year after Gaddafi's death, the office of the Libyan Prime Minister said Ibrahim had been captured in the town of Tarhouna, 40 miles south of Tripoli.
Other officials expressed scepticism about the report. There have been several previous rumours about his arrest, but all turned out to be false. Moussa Ibrahim, who was the face of the regime in the international media, was last seen in Tripoli just before it fell to opposition forces. He gave almost daily briefings to journalists, assuring them that the regime would prevail even as the rebel offensive entered the capital.
From the same tribe as Gaddafi, Mr Ibrahim studied at several British universities and claimed to have lived in London for 15 years.
Gaddafi's intelligence chief Abdallah al-Sanussi is being held in Tripoli after being deported from Mauritania in September He fled Libya after last year's uprising and was arrested on his arrival in Nouakchott from Morocco in March , sparking repeated requests to the West African nation from the Libyan government for his return.
In June , the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity alleged to have been carried out in Benghazi, the main base of the Libyan opposition during the revolt. He has been accused of various human rights abuses, including his alleged role in the massacre of more than 1, inmates at Abu-Salim prison in Tripoli. France has already sentenced Sanussi to life imprisonment for his involvement in the bombing of a French airliner over Niger in in which people were killed.
Investigators in the US and UK believe he may have further knowledge about the Pan Am airliner bombing in over Lockerbie in Scotland in in which people died. Rats did same to dead body of Mutassim Gaddafi. They make photos of dead Mutassim and Muammar Gaddafi, they filmed their unhuman acts over dead bodies.
After they, possibly, burned bodies, also rats destroyed tomb of parents of Gaddafi and eliminate bones from that tomb. Gaddafi claimed to still be alive Iranian and Egyptian media sources have claimed that the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is still alive.
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