Muhammad Gaddafi, eldest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi: biography

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

Muhammad Gaddafi is a charming man, widely known in Libya and beyond, as he is the son of the country's leader. In Russia, not everyone knows about him. Our article is about this person. He was chairman of the Libyan State Post and Telecommunications Company, which owned and operated cell phones and satellite services in the country. The company is the exclusive internet provider.

Immediately after the start of the protests against the Gaddafi government in February 2011, which led to the Civil War in Libya, she cut Internet communications between that country and the rest of the world. The company never reopened. What happened to its leader and the hero of our article? Where did he go?

Origin and education

The eldest son of the assassinated Libyan dictator was born in 1970 in Tripoli. Now he is 48 years old. He was a typical representative of the Libyan "golden youth" - he drove a motorcycle, attended a school for the children of the political elite,received his higher education in London. His father, Muammar Gaddafi, ruled Libya for almost half a century. His mother is a school teacher, Fatiha al Nouri, who currently lives in Algiers. Parents divorced before the birth of the first child. Already in 1970, the Libyan ruler took a new wife. She was the former nurse Safiya Farkas, but this did not affect the fate of the firstborn. Everyone believed that he would be the successor to his father. The insurgency and the outbreak of hostilities in Libya have made terrible adjustments to family plans.

Surrender to rebels and escape

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 Al Jazeera, saying that he had surrendered to the rebels and that he was treated well. Shortly after this announcement, the line became inoperable due to crossfire. The head of the National Transitional Council later spoke to Al Jazeera officials after securing the high-profile captive. Muhammad Gaddafi once again communicated with Al-Jazeera, again confirming the safety of his and his family. On August 22, 2011, he escaped with the help of Gaddafi loyalists.

Emigration

On August 29, 2011, he entered Algeria along with several other members of the Gaddafi family. In October 2012, they left their asylum in Algiers to travel to Oman, where they were granted political asylum. We can say that the war in Libya spared him, preserving the mostvaluable is life. Perhaps this is the most important thing in the current situation.

Olympic tickets scandal

The eldest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi once had 1,000 tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games. This was revealed through a BBC investigation.

Muhammad was given tickets as head of the Libyan Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee refused to send him tickets, citing internal civil war in the country.

The Daily Telegraph agency, covering the story, said that the UK government fears a major diplomatic embarrassment. A reliable source later said the tickets were cancelled.

The appearance of Gaddafi Jr. would almost certainly be poorly received by the Arab partners of the UK - those involved in military operations to remove Muammar Gaddafi from power during the war in Libya.

Guilt of Muhammad

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 not to win any tickets in the international lottery.

Even the people who designed the Olympic torch for next year's games said in an interview with ThisIsLondon.co.uk that they couldn't get tickets.

1, 8 million individual tickets have been requested for the final game. At the time, only 40,000 seats were available to the public. All this was seen as the fault of the Libyan politician MuhammadGaddafi.

Gaddafi clan

The Libyan ruler had a very large family (eight blood children and two adopted). A year has passed since 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 lot of influence in Libya. The same applies to the family of Muhammad Gaddafi.

Three of Gaddafi's sons were killed in the uprising, including former national security adviser Mutasim Gaddafi, who died at the hands of the rebels on the same day as his father.

Surviving members of the Gaddafi family survived a global persecution in October 2011. Muhammad's mother now lives in Algeria.

Those who emigrated

Safiya Farkas, the mother of Gaddafi's seven biological children, also left Libya. She spent the last year in Algiers after being granted asylum there “on humanitarian grounds.”

Together with her daughter Aisha and Gaddafi's son by his first wife Fatiha, she entered Algiers on August 29, when the rebels took control of Tripoli.

She is believed to have taken up residence in a safe villa in the town of Staoueli near Algiers, under strict orders to the Algerian government not to release political statements or interfere in Libyan affairs.

If events had gone differently, Muhammad Gaddafi might have spent the summer in London for 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 control of Tripoli.

Gaddafi's first wife and the mother of this article's subject, Fatiha al Nouri, was the chairman of a state-owned telecommunications company that controlled Libya's mobile and satellite communications networks. She, like her son, was directly involved in attempts to suppress the opposition uprising.

Zealous sons of the ex-dictator

Difficult trials befell the family of the former dictator. Muhammad Gaddafi, a graduate of the London Business School, has long been at the center of a protracted battle between the International Criminal Court, where they want to convict him on charges of crimes against humanity, and Libyan courts, which insist he should stand trial in Libya.

The Libyan judiciary appears to have won the battle, but a date for his trial has not been set for a long time. It was reported that a state-of-the-art detention center with a basketball court and a personal chef has been prepared in the capital Tripoli.

Soccer Brother

Saadi Gaddafi, the former head of the Libyan Football Federation, has been 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 brief career in top-level Italian football, which was cut short by a failed drug test, as well as his playboy lifestyle. Niger refused to extradite him to Libya, and the Minister of Justice said that hewill face the death pen alty.

Beautiful sisters

It's time to talk a little about the sisters of Muhammad Gaddafi. Aisha Gaddafi, the only natural daughter of the colonel, received asylum in Algeria with her mother and half-brother Muhammad. We add that she was a lieutenant general of the Libyan army, she was part of the battalion to protect Saddam Hussein. The lady, as we can see, is far from being 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 TV channel to call on the Libyans to rebel against the new government.

She also hired Israeli lawyer Nick Kaufman to petition the ICC to investigate her father's death. Thus, she confidently inscribed 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.

Muhammad's missing sister

Libyan leader Gaddafi has long claimed that his adopted daughter Hana was killed in a US air strike in 1986 when she was only 18 months old. However, after the revolution, evidence emerged that Hana was alive, although her current status is unknown.

Video footage has surfaced showing Hana playing with her parents and brothers a few years after the bombing. Among these brothers, of course, was MuhammadGaddafi.

Documents found in the Bad al-Aziziya compound include medical certificates and even a British Council testimony under the name of Hana Muammar Gaddafi.

Libyan sources report that Hana received a medical degree and worked for several years at the Tripoli Medical Center.

Moussa Ibrahim

On October 20 (exactly one year after Gaddafi's death), the office of the Libyan Prime Minister reported that Ibrahim had been captured in the city of 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 he was captured.

He gave journalists 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 Abdallah al-Sanussi is in Tripoli after being deported from Mauritania in September 2012. He fled Libya after the uprising last year and was arrested upon arrival in Nouakchott from Morocco in March 2012.

In June 2011, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity allegedly carried out in Benghazi, the main base of the Libyan opposition during the uprising.

He is accused ofvarious human rights violations, including his alleged role in the 1996 murder of over 1,200 detainees at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya.

France has already sentenced Sanussi to life in prison for his role in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner in Niger that killed 170 people.

Investigators in the US and UK believe he may have more information about the 1988 Pan Am bombing of Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.

Musa Kusa

In the past, one of the most influential people of the Gaddafi regime, Musa Kusa, hid from the rebels for several months and flew to the UK via Tunisia. He currently lives in Qatar.

Kusa was Libya's intelligence chief from 1994 to 2009. He later became Minister of Foreign Affairs.

A BBC investigation claimed he personally tortured prisoners and was involved in the 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre that killed more than 1,200 people.

Kusa denies the allegations and claims he does not know who was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.

Muhammad's most influential brother

The first son of Muammar Gaddafi from his second marriage Saif al-Islam - one of the most famous politicians before the Arab spring. He left the country in 2011 and was released by the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq battalion under an amnesty in June. He spent more than five years in captivity.

Saif al-Islam is the only onethe hope of the Libyans. He is going to run for the presidency.

According to Khalid al-Zaidi, the current difficult situation in Libya, lack of dialogue and misunderstanding of the actual state of the situation make it necessary for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to lead the leadership 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 currently underway between the leaders of rival Libyan parties sponsored by the UN to support the power of the only government that so far has not yet imposed its powers.

"Negotiators are not working to stabilize the country, but making deals with each other, protecting their own interests, which are far from the interests of ordinary Libyans," al-Zaidi said, adding that it was the interests of foreign states that extract benefit from the protracted Libyan crisis.

Mr. al-Zaidi also claimed that Saif Gaddafi is not supported by political forces, but he is loved by ordinary Libyans.

As for 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, meeting with the people and local leaders. He denied claims that Saif al-Islam fled to Egypt or elsewhere.

Historical background

Long-term Libyan dictator Gaddafi was assassinated in 2011 duringcivil unrest in the country, which were caused by the protests of Arab citizens. His convoy was fired upon by the NATO military, Muammar himself was wounded. The rebels killed him, recording the death of the former leader of the country on video. Together with him, his son Mutazzim died (under unclear circumstances). Their bodies were placed in a refrigerator and put on public display in the mall. At night, unknown people stole the bodies and secretly buried them in the Libyan desert. Subsequently, some members of Muammar's large family fled the country, others were killed, and others were brought to justice.

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 2011 uprising (despite that he created the International Commonwe alth Fund 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.