Muhammad Gaddafi is a charming man, widely known in Libya and beyond, since he is the son of the country's leader. In Russia, not everyone knows about him. In our article - about this person. He was chairman of the State Post and Telecommunications Company of Libya, which owned and operated cell phones and satellite services in the country. The company is an exclusive Internet provider.
Immediately after the outbreak of protests against the Gaddafi government in February 2011, which led to the Libyan Civil War, it cut down on Internet connections between this country and the rest of the world. The company has not resumed its activities. What happened to her leader and the hero of our article? Where did he go?
Origin and education
The eldest son of the murdered dictator of Libya was born in 1970 in Tripoli. He is now 48 years old. He was a typical representative of the Libyan "golden youth" - he drove a motorcycle, attended a school for children of the political elite, and graduated in London. His father, Muammar Gaddafi, was the ruler of Libya for almost half a century. His mother is a school teacher, Fatih al Nouri, who currently lives in Algeria. Parents divorced before the birth of their first child. Already in 1970, the Libyan ruler took a new wife. She was the former nurse Safia Farkash, but this did not affect the fate of the first-born. Everyone believed that he would be the successor to his father. The rebel movement and the outbreak of hostilities in Libya have made terrible adjustments to family plans.
Surrender and Escape
On August 21, 2011, Muhammad Gaddafi surrendered when the rebel forces of the National Transitional Council captured Tripoli. While in custody at his home, he gave a telephone interview to representatives of Al-Jazeera TV channel, saying that he had surrendered to the rebels, that he was treated well. Shortly after this announcement, the line became inoperative due to crossfire. The head of the National Transitional Council later spoke with al-Jazeera staff to ensure the safety of a high-ranking prisoner. Muhammad Gaddafi once again talked with employees of Al-Jazeera, again confirming the safety of his and his family. On August 22, 2011, he escaped with the help of adherents of Gaddafi.
Emigration
On August 29, 2011, he entered Algeria with several other members of the Gaddafi family. In October 2012, they left asylum in Algeria to travel to Oman, where they were granted political asylum. We can say that the war in Libya spared him, preserving the most valuable thing - life. Perhaps in the current situation this is most important.
Olympics Ticket Scandal
The eldest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the time had 1000 tickets for the 2012 Olympic Games. This was revealed through an investigation by the BBC.
Muhammad was awarded tickets as the head of the Libyan Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee refused to send tickets, citing an internal civil war in the country.
The Daily Telegraph, reporting on the story, said the UK government was wary of major diplomatic embarrassment. A reliable source later said the tickets were canceled.
The appearance of Gaddafi Jr. would almost certainly have been poorly received by the Arab partners of Great Britain - those involved in military operations to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power during the Libyan war.
Muhammad's wines
The 250,000 people who applied for tickets for the 2012 summer game were left empty-handed, including then-mayor Boris Johnson, who was disappointed by not winning a single ticket in the international lottery.
Even the people who designed the Olympic Torch for games next year said in an interview with ThisIsLondon.co.uk that they were unable to get tickets.
1.8 million individual tickets were requested for the final game. At that time, only 40,000 seats were available to the public. All this was seen as the fault of the Libyan politician Muhammad Gaddafi.
Gaddafi clan
The Libyan ruler had a very large family (eight blood-bearing children and two foster children). A year has passed after the capture and violent death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on October 20, 2011. What happened to his family and members of his circle? There are many rumors about the family of the former dictator. Some believe that she still has a great influence in Libya. The same applies to the family of Muhammad Gaddafi.
Gaddafi’s three sons were killed in the uprising, including former national security adviser Mutasim Gaddafi, who died at the hands of rebels on the same day as his father.
Surviving members of the Gaddafi family survived global persecution in October 2011. Muhammad's mother now lives in Algeria.
Left for emigration
Safia Farkash, the mother of seven biological children of Gaddafi, also left Libya. She spent the last year in Algeria after receiving asylum there “for humanitarian reasons”.
Together with her daughter Aisha and son Gaddafi from his first wife Fatiha, she moved to Algeria on August 29, when the rebels took control of Tripoli.
She is believed to have settled in a safe villa in the town of Stawell near Algeria, strictly ordering the Algerian government not to publish political statements or interfere in Libyan affairs.
If things had gone differently, Muhammad Gaddafi might have spent the summer in London at the 2012 Olympics as head of the Libyan Olympic Committee. Instead, Gaddafi's eldest son spent more than a year in Algeria after fleeing when the rebels took Tripoli under their control.
Gaddafi's first wife and the mother of the hero of this article, Fatih al Nuri, was the chairman of the state-owned telecommunications company, which controlled mobile and satellite networks in Libya. She, like her son, was directly involved in trying to quell the opposition uprising.
The ex-dictator's zealous sons
Difficult trials fell on the family of the former dictator. Muhammad Gaddafi, a graduate of the London Business School, has long been at the center of a long battle between the International Criminal Court, where he was tried to be convicted of charges of crimes against humanity, and the Libyan courts, which insist that he should be tried in Libya.
The Libyan judiciary seems to have won the battle, but the date of its trial has not been set for a long time. It was reported that in the capital of Tripoli , a modern pre-trial detention center with a basketball court and a personal chef was prepared.
Soccer brother
Saadi Gaddafi, the former head of the Libyan Football Federation, was granted asylum in Niger, where he lives in a state-run guesthouse in Niamey after fleeing through the Sahara Desert. Saadi is known for his short career in top-level Italian football, which was interrupted by an unsuccessful doping test, as well as his playboy-style lifestyle. Niger refused to extradite him to Libya, and the Minister of Justice said that he would surely face the death penalty.
Beautiful sisters
It's time to talk a little about the sisters of Muhammad Gaddafi. Aisha Gaddafi, the colonel’s only blood daughter, received asylum in Algeria with her mother and half-brother Muhammad. We add that she was a lieutenant general of the Libyan army, was part of the battalion for the defense of Saddam Hussein. The lady, as we see, is far from a modest Libyan housewife.
Three days after their arrival, it was announced that Aisha had given birth to a baby girl.
Despite the fact that this zealous girl was under the control of the Algerian government, she used the Syrian television channel to urge the Libyans to rebel against the new government.
She also hired an Israeli lawyer, Nick Kaufman, to petition the ICC to investigate the death of her father. Thus, she confidently entered her name in the history of Libya.
Libyan media reported that Aisha supported Algeria in a recent clash with the Libyan football team, saying the new government does not represent the Libyan people.
Missing sister of Muhammad
Gaddafi’s Libyan leader has long stated that his adopted daughter Khan was killed in a US air strike in 1986 when she was only 18 months old. However, after the revolution, evidence appeared that Hana was alive, although her current status was unknown.
Video materials appeared in which Hana played with her parents and brothers a few years after the bombing. Among these brothers, of course, was Muhammad Gaddafi.
Documents found at Bad al-Azizia's compound include medical certificates and even a British Council certificate under the name of Hana Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan sources of information report that Hana received a medical education and worked for several years at the Tripoli Medical Center.
Moussa Ibrahim
On October 20 (exactly one year after Gaddafi’s death), the Libyan Prime Minister’s office reported that Ibrahim was captured in Tarhuna, 40 miles south of Tripoli. Other officials expressed skepticism about the report.
There were several previous rumors about his arrest, but all turned out to be false.
Moussa Ibrahim, who was considered the face of the regime in the international media, was last seen in Tripoli before his capture.
He gave reporters almost daily briefings, assuring them that the regime would prevail even after the rebel invasion of the capital.
Ibrahim studied at several British universities and claimed to have lived in London for 15 years.
Sanussi
Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi is in Tripoli after being deported from Mauritania in September 2012. He escaped from Libya after the uprising last year and was arrested on arrival in Nouakchott from Morocco in March 2012.
In June 2011, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity allegedly carried out in Benghazi, the main base of the Libyan opposition during the uprising.
He is accused of various human rights violations, including his alleged role in the killing in 1996 of more than 1,200 prisoners at Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli, Libya.
France has already sentenced Sanoussi to life imprisonment for participating in the bombing of a French airliner in Niger in 1989, which killed 170 people.
Investigators in the US and the UK believe that he may have additional information about the bombing of the Pan Am plane in Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, which killed 270 people.
Musa Kusa
In the past, one of the most influential people in the Gaddafi regime, Musa Kusa, hid from the rebels for several months and flew to the UK through Tunisia. Now he lives in Qatar.
Kusa was the head of intelligence services in Libya from 1994 to 2009. He later became Minister of Foreign Affairs.
An investigation by the BBC claimed that he personally tortured prisoners and participated in a massacre in a prison in Abu Salim in 1996, in which more than 1,200 people died.
Kusa denies the allegations and claims that he does not know who is responsible for the bombing of Lockerbie.
Muhammad's most influential brother
The first son of Muammar Gaddafi from his second marriage, Saif al-Islam, is one of the most famous politicians until the Arab spring. He left the country in 2011, was released by the battalion unit of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq for an amnesty in June. He spent more than five years in captivity.
Saif al-Islam is the only hope of the Libyans. He is going to run for president.
According to Khalid al-Zayedi, the current difficult situation in Libya, the lack of dialogue and a lack of understanding of the actual situation make it necessary for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to lead the leadership in order to try to reach a political settlement in the country.
The lawyer also explained that the work of the most prominent son of the leader of Libya is significantly different from what is happening in Tunisia, where negotiations are underway between the leaders of the rival Libyan parties sponsored by the UN to support the power of a single government that has not yet imposed its powers .
"The negotiators are not working to stabilize the country, but conclude deals with each other, protecting their own interests, which are far from the interests of ordinary Libyans," said al-Zaidi, adding that these are the interests of foreign states that benefit from the protracted Libyan crisis. .
Mr. al-Zayedi also claimed that Saif Gaddafi is not supported by political forces, but that he is loved by ordinary Libyans.
Regarding the current whereabouts of this son of Muammar Gaddafi, the lawyer said that he does not spend all his time in one place, he travels around the country, meets with people and local leaders. He denied allegations that Saif al-Islam fled to Egypt or elsewhere.
History reference
Libyan long-term dictator Gaddafi was killed in 2011 during a period of civil unrest in the country, which was caused by protests by Arab citizens. His convoy was shelled by the NATO military, Muammar himself was wounded. The rebels killed him by recording the death of the former leader of the country on video. Together with him, his son Mutazzim died (under mysterious circumstances). Their bodies were placed in a refrigerator and put on public display in a shopping center. At night, strangers stole the bodies and secretly buried them in the Libyan desert. Subsequently, some members of the large family of Muammar fled the country, others were killed, and others were brought to trial.
Seven years ago (after the collapse of the Libyan government), the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam and wanted him to stand trial for crimes against humanity during the uprising in 2011 (despite the fact that he created the International Fund for the Commonwealth for Charity and the Arab Alliance for Democracy and Human Rights).
Muhammad has not visited Tripoli for a long time, Libya remains a closed country for him.