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Reported death
On 20 March 2011, it was reported by the anti-Gaddafi Al Manara Media that Khamis al-Gaddafi had died from his injuries sustained when pilot Muhammad Mokhtar Osman allegedly crashed his plane into Bab al-Azizia a week earlier. The crashing of the plane itself had also not been previously reported or confirmed by any other independent media except Al Manara and the Algerian Shuruk newspaper, which is closely connected to Al Manara, and with it there is a possibility of the reports being part of the propaganda operations by the opposition. Khamis has yet to be seen or heard from since the reported suicide plane crash.[12][13][14] U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton stated that she was aware of reports that one of Gaddafi's sons had been killed in non-coalition air strikes, after hearing them from "many different sources", but that the "evidence is not sufficient" for her to confirm this.[15][16]
The pro-Gaddafi Libyan government has denied that he was killed.[17]
http://www.yalibnan.com/2011/03/25/death-of-gaddafis-son-khamis-confirmed/
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Death of Gaddafi’s son Khamis confirmed
Al-Arabiya television quoted on Friday an unnamed source as saying reports that Libyan leader Moammad Qaddafi’s son, Khamis, was killed are true.The source added that Khamis Qaddafi was killed in a raid in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli.
Khamis, 27, who runs the feared Khamis Brigade that has been prominent in its role of attacking rebel-held areas, was reportedly killed Saturday night.
According to reports on Algerian TV, a Libyan air force pilot crashed his jet into the Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli in a kamikaze attack.
Khamis allegedly died of burns in hospital. The Gaddafi regime denied the reports of his death
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110430/wl_nm/us_libya
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Libya's Gaddafi survives air strikes, son killed
Reuters – An armed rebel fighter provides security from atop a building to thousands of comrades and civilians … TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Saturday.
"What we have now is the law of the jungle," government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told a news conference. "We think now it is clear to everyone that what is happening in Libya has nothing to do with the protection of civilians."
Gaddafi, who seized power in a 1969 coup, is fighting an uprising by rebels who have seized much of the eastern part of the country. British and French-led NATO forces are permitted under a United Nations resolution to mount air attacks on Gaddafi forces to protect civilians.
There was no immediate NATO reaction or any independent confirmation of the deaths. Gaddafi had appeared on television in the early hours of Saturday and said he would never step down. He offered talks to the rebels, who rejected the proposal as hollow and treacherous.
Libya's government took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving mangled rods of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.
A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house, in a wealthy residential area of Tripoli. Glass and debris covered the lawns and what appeared to be an unexploded missile lay in one corner.
"FIGHT AND FIGHT"
Inside one part of the villa, a beige corner sofa was virtually untouched, but debris had caved in on other striped upholstered chairs. The blasts had been heard across the city late on Saturday.
Rifle fire and car horns rang out in the rebels' eastern capital of Benghazi as news of the attack spread.
"The leader himself is in good health. He wasn't harmed," Ibrahim said. "His wife is also in good health.
"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country. This is not permitted by international law. It is not permitted by any moral code or principle."
He said Gaddafi's youngest son, Saif Al-Arab, had been killed in the attack. Saif al-Arab, 29, is one of Gaddafi's less prominent sons, with a limited role in the power structure. Ibrahim described him as a student who had studied in Germany.
"We will fight and fight if we have to," Ibrahim said. "The leader offered peace to NATO yesterday and NATO rejected it."
Fighting in Libya's civil war, which grew from protests for greater political freedom that have spread across the Arab world, has reached stalemate in recent weeks with neither side capable of achieving a decisive blow.
Libyan forces had reached the gates of Benghazi last month when Gaddafi appeared on television declaring he would crush the rebellion, showing "no pity, no mercy." Days later the United Nations passed its resolution allowing the air strikes and saving the rebels from defeat.
(Additional reporting by Tarek Amara and Abdelaziz Boumzar in Dehiba, Deepa Babington and Michael Georgy in Benghazi, Matthew Tostevin in Tunis; Writing by Ralph Boulton; Editing by Jon Hemming)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamis_Brigade
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The Khamis Brigade, formally the 32nd Reinforced Brigade of the Armed People[2], is a special forces brigade of the Libyan military loyal to Muammar Gaddafi,[3] the de-facto leader of Libya since 1969. Commanded by Gaddafi's youngest son, Khamis Gaddafi, the 32nd Brigade was called "the most well-trained and well-equipped force in the Libyan military" and "the most important military and security elements of the regime" in leaked U.S. memos.[citation needed] According to former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil, each of Gaddafi's sons has an army and can do with it as he pleases.[4]
http://theamericanaudacity.blogspot.com/2011/03/major-victory-in-libya-gaddafis-elite.html
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The New York Times reported that air strikes targeted an oil refinery in central Libya and said the strikes are an indication that the Qaddafi regime is stronger than some of the opposition seems willing to admit. According to the Times, this was the first time in 10 days that Qaddafi’s forces launched attacks by warplanes. Prior to this, opposition leaders claimed that all Air Force pilots had defected to the opposition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
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The next eldest son, by his second wife Safia, was Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was born in 1972. Saif served as a politician in his father's government, including as a spokesperson during the 2011 uprising, and worked as an architect. He ran a charity (GIFCA) which was involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in the Philippines. In 2006, after sharply criticizing his father's regime, Saif Al-Islam briefly left Libya, reportedly to take on a position in banking outside of the country. He returned soon after, and launched an environment-friendly initiative to teach children how to help clean up parts of Libya. He was involved in compensation negotiations with Italy and the United States.
The third eldest, Al-Saadi al-Gaddafi, married the daughter of a military commander. Saadi ran the Libyan Football Federation and signed to play for various professional teams including Italian Serie A team Perugia Calcio, although appearing only once in first team games.
Gaddafi's fourth son, Al-Mu'tasim-Billah al-Gaddafi, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Libyan Army. He later served as Libya's National Security Advisor, in which capacity he oversaw the nation's National Security Council. His name مُعْتَصِمٌ (بِٱللّٰهِ) /muʿtaṣimu-n (bi l–lāhi)/ could be Latinized as Mutassim, Moatessem or Moatessem-Billah. Saif Al-Islam and Moatessem-Billah were both seen as possible successors to their father.[citation needed]
The fifth, Hannibal Muammar al-Gaddafi, was a former employee of General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specialized in oil exports. He was most notable for involvement in a series of violent incidents throughout Europe. In 2001, Hannibal attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher; in September 2004, he was briefly detained in Paris after driving a Porsche at 140 kilometres per hour (90 mph) in the wrong direction and through red lights down the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated; and in 2005, Hannibal in Paris allegedly beat model and then-girlfriend Aline Skaf, who later filed an assault suit against him.[190] He was fined and given a four month suspended prison sentence after this incident. In December 2009 police were called to Claridge's hotel in London after staff heard a scream from Hannibal's room. Skaf, later his wife, suffered facial injuries including a broken nose, but charges were not pressed after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall.[191] On 15 July 2008, Hannibal and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July. The government of Libya subsequently boycotted Swiss products, reduced flights between Libya and Switzerland, stopped issuing visas to Swiss citizens, recalled diplomats from Bern, and forced all Swiss companies such as ABB and Nestlé to close offices. General National Maritime Transport Company, which owned a large refinery in Switzerland, halted oil shipments to Switzerland.[192] Two Swiss businessmen who were in Libya at the time were denied permission to leave the country, held hostage for some time. As of 2009, they were still unable to depart.[193] (see Switzerland-Libya conflict). At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Gaddafi labeled Switzerland a "world mafia" and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.[194]
Gaddafi's sixth son was Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi ("the sword of the Arabs"). Saif was appointed a military commander in the Libyan Army during the 2011 Libyan uprising, but defected to the opposition, and served in the Libyan People's Army.
Gaddafi's seventh son was Khamis al-Gaddafi, who served as the commander of the Libyan Army's elite Khamis Brigade.
Gaddafi's only natural daughter is Ayesha al-Gaddafi, a lawyer who joined the defense teams of executed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.[187] She is married to a cousin of her father's.
He is also said to have adopted two children, Hanna and Milad.[195][196] Hanna was apparently killed in 1986 at the age of four, during retaliatory US bombing raids; the facts are disputed however,[197] and this adoption may have been posthumous.
Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, who married to Gaddafi's wife's sister, was believed to head military intelligence.[198]
The family's main residence was on the Bab al-Azizia military barracks, located in the southern suburbs of Tripoli.
Gaddafi held an honorary degree from Megatrend University in Belgrade conferred on him by former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilić.[199]
Gaddafi feared flying over water, preferred to stay on buildings' ground floors and almost never traveled without his trusted Ukrainian nurse Halyna Kolotnytska, a "voluptuous blonde," according to a U.S. document released by WikiLeaks late 2010.[200] Halyna's daughter denied the suggestion that the relationship is anything but professional.[201]
https://ktwop.wordpress.com/tag/saif-al-islam-muammar-al-gaddafi/
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"What we have now is the law of the jungle," government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told a news conference. "We think now it is clear to everyone that what is happening in Libya has nothing to do with the protection of civilians."
Gaddafi, who seized power in a 1969 coup, is fighting an uprising by rebels who have seized much of the eastern part of the country. British and French-led NATO forces are permitted under a United Nations resolution to mount air attacks on Gaddafi forces to protect civilians.
There was no immediate NATO reaction or any independent confirmation of the deaths. Gaddafi had appeared on television in the early hours of Saturday and said he would never step down. He offered talks to the rebels, who rejected the proposal as hollow and treacherous.
Libya's government took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in in some areas, leaving mangled rods of reinforcing steel hanging down among chunks of concrete.
A table football machine stood outside in the garden of the house, in a wealthy residential area of Tripoli. Glass and debris covered the lawns and what appeared to be an unexploded missile lay in one corner.
"FIGHT AND FIGHT"
Inside one part of the villa, a beige corner sofa was virtually untouched, but debris had caved in on other striped upholstered chairs. The blasts had been heard across the city late on Saturday.
Rifle fire and car horns rang out in the rebels' eastern capital of Benghazi as news of the attack spread.
"The leader himself is in good health. He wasn't harmed," Ibrahim said. "His wife is also in good health.
"This was a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country. This is not permitted by international law. It is not permitted by any moral code or principle."
He said Gaddafi's youngest son, Saif Al-Arab, had been killed in the attack. Saif al-Arab, 29, is one of Gaddafi's less prominent sons, with a limited role in the power structure. Ibrahim described him as a student who had studied in Germany.
"We will fight and fight if we have to," Ibrahim said. "The leader offered peace to NATO yesterday and NATO rejected it."
Fighting in Libya's civil war, which grew from protests for greater political freedom that have spread across the Arab world, has reached stalemate in recent weeks with neither side capable of achieving a decisive blow.
Libyan forces had reached the gates of Benghazi last month when Gaddafi appeared on television declaring he would crush the rebellion, showing "no pity, no mercy." Days later the United Nations passed its resolution allowing the air strikes and saving the rebels from defeat.
(Additional reporting by Tarek Amara and Abdelaziz Boumzar in Dehiba, Deepa Babington and Michael Georgy in Benghazi, Matthew Tostevin in Tunis; Writing by Ralph Boulton; Editing by Jon Hemming)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamis_Brigade
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The Khamis Brigade, formally the 32nd Reinforced Brigade of the Armed People[2], is a special forces brigade of the Libyan military loyal to Muammar Gaddafi,[3] the de-facto leader of Libya since 1969. Commanded by Gaddafi's youngest son, Khamis Gaddafi, the 32nd Brigade was called "the most well-trained and well-equipped force in the Libyan military" and "the most important military and security elements of the regime" in leaked U.S. memos.[citation needed] According to former Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil, each of Gaddafi's sons has an army and can do with it as he pleases.[4]
http://theamericanaudacity.blogspot.com/2011/03/major-victory-in-libya-gaddafis-elite.html
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The New York Times reported that air strikes targeted an oil refinery in central Libya and said the strikes are an indication that the Qaddafi regime is stronger than some of the opposition seems willing to admit. According to the Times, this was the first time in 10 days that Qaddafi’s forces launched attacks by warplanes. Prior to this, opposition leaders claimed that all Air Force pilots had defected to the opposition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
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Personal life and family
His second wife was Safia Farkash, née el-Brasai, former nurse from Al Bayda.[187][188][189] Gaddafi had eight biological children, seven of them sons.His eldest son, Muhammad al-Gaddafi, was born to a wife now in disfavour, but ran the Libyan Olympic Committee.[187]
The next eldest son, by his second wife Safia, was Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was born in 1972. Saif served as a politician in his father's government, including as a spokesperson during the 2011 uprising, and worked as an architect. He ran a charity (GIFCA) which was involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in the Philippines. In 2006, after sharply criticizing his father's regime, Saif Al-Islam briefly left Libya, reportedly to take on a position in banking outside of the country. He returned soon after, and launched an environment-friendly initiative to teach children how to help clean up parts of Libya. He was involved in compensation negotiations with Italy and the United States.
The third eldest, Al-Saadi al-Gaddafi, married the daughter of a military commander. Saadi ran the Libyan Football Federation and signed to play for various professional teams including Italian Serie A team Perugia Calcio, although appearing only once in first team games.
Gaddafi's fourth son, Al-Mu'tasim-Billah al-Gaddafi, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Libyan Army. He later served as Libya's National Security Advisor, in which capacity he oversaw the nation's National Security Council. His name مُعْتَصِمٌ (بِٱللّٰهِ) /muʿtaṣimu-n (bi l–lāhi)/ could be Latinized as Mutassim, Moatessem or Moatessem-Billah. Saif Al-Islam and Moatessem-Billah were both seen as possible successors to their father.[citation needed]
The fifth, Hannibal Muammar al-Gaddafi, was a former employee of General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specialized in oil exports. He was most notable for involvement in a series of violent incidents throughout Europe. In 2001, Hannibal attacked three Italian policemen with a fire extinguisher; in September 2004, he was briefly detained in Paris after driving a Porsche at 140 kilometres per hour (90 mph) in the wrong direction and through red lights down the Champs-Élysées while intoxicated; and in 2005, Hannibal in Paris allegedly beat model and then-girlfriend Aline Skaf, who later filed an assault suit against him.[190] He was fined and given a four month suspended prison sentence after this incident. In December 2009 police were called to Claridge's hotel in London after staff heard a scream from Hannibal's room. Skaf, later his wife, suffered facial injuries including a broken nose, but charges were not pressed after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall.[191] On 15 July 2008, Hannibal and his wife were held for two days and charged with assaulting two of their staff in Geneva, Switzerland and then released on bail on 17 July. The government of Libya subsequently boycotted Swiss products, reduced flights between Libya and Switzerland, stopped issuing visas to Swiss citizens, recalled diplomats from Bern, and forced all Swiss companies such as ABB and Nestlé to close offices. General National Maritime Transport Company, which owned a large refinery in Switzerland, halted oil shipments to Switzerland.[192] Two Swiss businessmen who were in Libya at the time were denied permission to leave the country, held hostage for some time. As of 2009, they were still unable to depart.[193] (see Switzerland-Libya conflict). At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Gaddafi labeled Switzerland a "world mafia" and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.[194]
Gaddafi's sixth son was Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi ("the sword of the Arabs"). Saif was appointed a military commander in the Libyan Army during the 2011 Libyan uprising, but defected to the opposition, and served in the Libyan People's Army.
Gaddafi's seventh son was Khamis al-Gaddafi, who served as the commander of the Libyan Army's elite Khamis Brigade.
Gaddafi's only natural daughter is Ayesha al-Gaddafi, a lawyer who joined the defense teams of executed former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.[187] She is married to a cousin of her father's.
He is also said to have adopted two children, Hanna and Milad.[195][196] Hanna was apparently killed in 1986 at the age of four, during retaliatory US bombing raids; the facts are disputed however,[197] and this adoption may have been posthumous.
Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, who married to Gaddafi's wife's sister, was believed to head military intelligence.[198]
The family's main residence was on the Bab al-Azizia military barracks, located in the southern suburbs of Tripoli.
Gaddafi held an honorary degree from Megatrend University in Belgrade conferred on him by former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilić.[199]
Gaddafi feared flying over water, preferred to stay on buildings' ground floors and almost never traveled without his trusted Ukrainian nurse Halyna Kolotnytska, a "voluptuous blonde," according to a U.S. document released by WikiLeaks late 2010.[200] Halyna's daughter denied the suggestion that the relationship is anything but professional.[201]
https://ktwop.wordpress.com/tag/saif-al-islam-muammar-al-gaddafi/
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Cracks appear in the Gaddafi façade
April 4, 2011It was a only matter of time before the survival reflex started to kick in and start the propagation of cracks within the façade surrounding the Gaddafi family and clan. But replacing him with one of his sons would be a case of one step forward and two back.
As the NYT reports:
Related: Gaddafi’s children are a motley – but dangerous – lot
As the NYT reports:
Saif al-Islam el-Gaddafi
At least two sons of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi are proposing a resolution to the Libyan conflict that would entail pushing their father aside to make way for a transition to a constitutional democracy under the direction of his son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, a diplomat and a Libyan official briefed on the plan said Sunday.Saif al-Islam el-Gaddafi is thought to have plagiarised his PhD thesis at the LSE but considering the former German Defence Minister’s plagiarism perhaps this is an acceptable level of ethics for European politicians!
…. The proposal offers a new window into the dynamics of the Qaddafi family at a time when the colonel, who has seven sons, is relying heavily on them. Stripped of one of his closest confidantes by the defection of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa and isolated by decades of attempted coups and internal purges, he is leaning on his sons as trusted aides and military commanders.
The idea also touches on longstanding differences among his sons. While Seif and Saadi have leaned toward Western-style economic and political openings, Colonel Qaddafi’s sons Khamis and Mutuassim are considered hard-liners. Khamis leads a fearsome militia focused on repressing internal unrest.
Related: Gaddafi’s children are a motley – but dangerous – lot
LSE head quits over suspect ties to Gaddafi & son
March 4, 2011
Sir Howard Davies: Image via Wikipedia
Not only did the UK government provide Gaddafi with absolution for all his sins for the sake of weapons deals and oil contracts, they also orchestrated the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
And the LSE was part of the process of providing legitimacy to a bunch of thugs and murderers - of course in return for a suitable remuneration. The LSE Director has now resigned.
The director of the London School of Economics has resigned over its links to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. Sir Howard Davies said he recognised the university’s reputation had “suffered” and he had to quit. He said the decision to accept £300,000 for research from a foundation run by Col Gaddafi’s son, Saif, “backfired”.The LSE council has commissioned an independent inquiry into the university’s relationship with Libya and Saif Gaddafi. It will seek to clarify the extent of the LSE’s links with Libya and establish guidelines for future donations.
Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and former chairman of the Council of University College London, has been appointed to carry it out. Sir Howard said he regretted visiting Libya to advise its regime about financial reforms, calling it a “personal error of judgement”. …..
The LSE has already announced it is investigating claims that Saif Gaddafi plagiarised his PhD thesis, which was awarded in 2008. The Libyan leader’s son had studied at the LSE, gaining both an MSc and PhD.
A leaked US diplomatic cable indicates that the British government was also party to the deal to bring 400 Libyans to Britain for leadership training. The cable, published by WikiLeaks, suggests that other UK universities were involved in similar schemes, though there is no independent confirmation of this.
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: The new face of Libyan defiance
Colonel Gaddafi's son was educated in London and has friends in the City and Westminster. Or he did until last week
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaks to the media last week. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
Geneva places a high premium on guarding secrets, but rumours are a different currency. Amid momentous scenes being played out across the Middle East last week, sources in the Swiss financial centre were privately gossiping about a visit to Geneva earlier this year by Farhat Bengdara, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya.
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