Muammar gaddafi who is he

Download the France 24 app. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. On social media. Who are we? Fight the Fake. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning Subscribe. Page not found. He was captured by a Libyan militia in November , days after his father was killed.

Four years later, a Tripoli court sentenced him in absentia to death for crimes committed during the revolt. Until the interview, Saif al-Islam had not been seen or heard from since June , when he appeared via video link from Zintan during his trial by the Tripoli court. Saif al-Islam said in the interview that he was a free man organising a political return, and that his former captors "are now my friends". In recent years Libya has been split between two rival administrations backed by foreign forces and countless militias.

The security situation has been slowly improving since. A provisional government was agreed in March, and general elections are expected to take place on December Any possible return by Saif al-Islam to Libyan politics would face hurdles, including his conviction by the Tripoli court and the ICC warrant for his arrest.

Saif al-Islam said "he was confident that these legal issues could be negotiated away if a majority of the Libyan people choose him as their leader". The paper quoted him as saying: "I've been away from the Libyan people for 10 years. You need to come back slowly, slowly. Like a striptease.

You need to play with their minds a little. Some things do not ring true. According to Dhao, Gaddafi was moving from place to place and apartment to apartment until last week, but given the state of the siege of Sirte at that stage it seems unlikely that he could have entered the city from outside. The net was closing around the last loyalists who were squeezed into a pocket, surrounded on all sides, that was becoming ever smaller by the day.

Dhao made no mention either of the attack on the Gaddafi convoy by a US Predator drone and a French Rafale jet as it tried to break out of Sirte, attempting to drive three kilometres through hostile territory before it was scattered and brought to a halt by rebel fighters.

It is possible that Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it tried to flee came from the air. What is clear is that at around 8am on Thursday, as National Transitional Council fighters launched a final assault to capture the last remaining buildings in Sirte, in an area about metres square, the pro-Gaddafi forces had also readied a large convoy to break out. These armed vehicles were leaving Sirte at high speed and were attempting to force their way around the outskirts of the city.

The vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and ammunition, posing a significant threat to the local civilian population. The convoy was engaged by a Nato aircraft to reduce the threat. It was that air attack — which destroyed around a dozen cars — that dispersed the convoy into several groups, the largest numbering about As NTC fighters descended on the fleeing groups of cars, some individuals jumped from their vehicles to escape on foot, among them Gaddafi and a group of guards.

Finding a trail of blood, NTC fighters followed it to a sandy culvert with two storm drains. In one of these Gaddafi was hiding. Accounts here differ. According to some fighters quoted after the event, he begged his captors not to shoot. What is certain from several of the clips of video footage — most telling that shot by Ali Algadi — is that Gaddafi was dazed but still alive, although possibly already fatally wounded.

The question is what happens between this and later images of a lifeless Gaddafi lying on the ground having his shirt stripped off and propped in the back of a pickup truck and the next sequence which shows him dead. Here the accounts differ wildly. According to one fighter, caught on camera, he was shot in the stomach with a 9mm pistol. According to doctors not present at his capture and ambulance staff, Gaddafi was shot in the head.

He was filmed alive but wounded smoking a cigarette and drinking from a bottle of water, before the announcement that he also had died. There is hatred inside. We want to see him.