As the world watches the first days of military intervention in Libya, Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi now has few allies on the international stage. But sometimes, it's family that counts -- and Qaddafi's close-knit family has stood him in good stead during these days of civil war and aerial assault. In fact, in a bizarre twist on normal family dynamics, the Qaddafi clan's hard times over the last month seem to have only pulled them closer around their erratic patriarch. Qaddafi has eight biological children, seven of them sons, many of them embracing, in one way or another, the Western values that their father hated (and has railed against). But with his regime under fire, the Qaddafi children have been among their father's most ardent supporters, in many ways rejecting their past inclinations toward reform and partnership with the West. Here, Qaddafi poses with his second wife, Safia, and some of his children in November 1986 near the Bab Aziza palace in Libya, destroyed in a U.S. air raid. According to Muammar, another raid that year killed his adopted daughter.
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KASEMAN
10:20 AM ET
March 18, 2011
Gaddafi's nuttiness
My sister was an ambasador plenipotentiary to Libya in 1979 to urge Gaddafi cease supporting Uganda's thug Idi Amin. He refused to see her for 5 months, and her contacts, the Prime Minister Jalloud and foreign minister Mansour , warned her that he is nutty, but cunning and smart as hell, because as a boy he fell off a camel and landed on his head! This from is own Prime Minister !
When she finally met him, Gaddafi dismised her by saying that Idi was an oustanding African leader. Jalloud disappeared, Kikkia was kidnapped by the Egyptian secret service in Cairo, probably for a fat load of $$. He was handed over to Gaddafi and murdered. Mansour Kikkhia's 's wife, Baha, an American citizen, appealed to Sec State Albright to do something,, but of course Madame Mad had no intention of upsetting our dear ally Mubarak.
CHICOANDTHEMAN2001
7:47 PM ET
March 18, 2011
Kadafy HAD No Daughter Killed in 1986
I'm disappointed that FB repeats that hoax from the bombing raid 25 years ago. The claim that Kadafy's "daughter" was killed has been thoroughly debunked. If anything, he crassly "adopted" a daughter AFTER the girl was killed. But since no one has ever confirmed the girl's existence, and news reports at the time varied her age anywhere from infancy to seven-years-old, we can safely assume that there was no connection whatsoever to the girl. Even if she existed, and died, she had no connection to Kadafy and he only used her corpse for his gains.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/nbc%E2%80%99s-mitchell-regurgitates-gaddafi-lies/
BASEM
10:15 PM ET
March 23, 2011
The truth is even weirder
Hi
in regards to your comments about Gaddafi's daughter dying, the truth is even weirder than you expect. I am a Libyan citizen and spent most of my life in Tripoli. After the bombing in 1986 Gaddafi claimed that his adopted daughter, Hanaa, was killed in the raids. I was young then and can't verify if he was known to have an adopted daughter befor the raids. Now why he would adopt a daughter is unclear, especially as adoption is sin in islam. there have been rumors that she is an illegitimate daughter of his. We accepted that she had died in the bombing and life went on as usual.
Now this is where it gets weird, in early 2000's, while I was finishing med school, a new female student showed up at campus surrounded by bodygaurds, when I enquired about who she is, I was told that she is Hanna Gaddafi, the adopted daughter of Gaddafi that died in the 1986 bombings. No one really questioned that she was still alive, or wondered where she was the preceding decade. She has graduated medical school and now is a prominent player in health care in Libya, appointing and removing hospital boards, etc. This is an easy to prove fact, any recently graduated physicians from Tripoli can confirm this.
I read the novel 1984 by George Orwell a few years later, and could not help but feel an eerie familiarity.
JUAN67
10:19 PM ET
March 23, 2011
You r right
You r right , I worked in libya for a long time , I was close to some ppl in Qadafi`s inner circle , his "departed" daughter is still very much alive, her name is Hana and i think she is 26 y old now. this shows how low can this monster go by using his adopted daughter as a propaganda tool.
here are some pix of her:
http://iranarab.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/131.jpg
http://www.libyan-national-movement.org/images/_segmentimages/hana_resize1.png6s08kojf.jpg
JUAN67
10:28 PM ET
March 23, 2011
@BASEM adoption is not a sin
@BASEM adoption is not a sin in Islam as long as the child doesn't get the adopter's name . in fact Qadafi has 3 adopted children 2 daughters and, 1 son, but they are out of the picture and rarely seen in public.
BASEM
10:34 PM ET
March 23, 2011
@juan67 you are right and
@juan67
you are right and perhaps I should have made myself clearer. While raising and taking care of an orphan is highly commended in islam. Giving them your own name and claiming them as your own is not. However, Hanaa signs her name (including in patients charts) as Hanaa Muammar Gaddafi.
I'm not sure who are his "other" adopted children that you mention. He has a son, Seif Al-arab, who is or was in Germany. it is unclear if he is adopted or not. Never heard of any other daughters.
BASEM
10:36 PM ET
March 23, 2011
I am amazed that no western
I am amazed that no western media have ever picked up on the story that the daughter that died is actually still alive and well.
JUAN67
10:43 PM ET
March 23, 2011
I remember beside Hana he has
I remember beside Hana he has 1 daughter which older than Isha her name is Kadija and another son I don't know his name but he was a young guard of his who saved the dictator's life.
ASAD KHAN
11:11 PM ET
March 27, 2011
adoption not sin in islam
An adopted child can not inherit according to sharia(islamic law)
DROOGE
8:57 PM ET
March 18, 2011
Qaddafi...
It is truly amazing how we alter history as we go along. We change it in the West to suite our up to date assessment of a country or a leader that was more compassionate and proved correct while the West was on the wrong side of history. I don't deny what Qaddafi is doing to his people today is an abomination and he gives every indication that he has gone insane.
America and the West supported South Africa and strengthened apartheid; the foulest most disgraceful, disgusting political system ever devised now being emulated by Israel against Palestine to the utter silence of the complicit West.
The great peace master of the 20th Century was Nelson Mandela. Did the West condemn his imprisonment? The exact opposite they fought alongside South African troops in Angola that was supported by Cuba's Fidel Castro.
Who supported the rebels then in South Africa none other than Qaddafi with weapons and money. Who in connivance with the USA smuggled weapons and gave money to the IRA who were fighting Britain’s occupation of the oppressed Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland’s, it was Qaddafi.
And one of your commenters says he made up the story of how his adopted daughter was killed when American war planes attacked his palaces, why? Why was the USA attacking Colonel Qaddafi’s palaces? Who gave them the right to attempt to assassinate him? I have read absolutely nothing that contradicts that murder.
Colonel Qaddafi is way passed his use by date and should have gracefully resigned his position of supreme leader and allowed a younger vibrant people to take control of his country and allowed democracy to flourish and his country to modernize. Unfortunately that dead Libyan citizens that he bombed with his superior weapons and the people’s money that he stole to buy the best mercenaries to slaughter his people will be his legacy.
BASEM
10:18 PM ET
March 23, 2011
she never died. His adopted
she never died. His adopted daughter is alive and well, graduated medical school and is a big player in health care in Libya, appointing and removing hospital directors, etc. See my reply to an earlier post.
TAKAMASHI
5:52 AM ET
March 19, 2011
to be a leader
Picture is a family father but when a man becomes a governer he changes his hat. I have seen this picture at some other forum.
MACDANIFE
12:12 PM ET
March 22, 2011
welcome to the asylmuslim
Two Somali girls executed by firing squad 'for spying'
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An Islamic group that controls much of southern Somalia executed two girls by firing squad, and hundreds of residents of a town were forced to view the spectacle.
Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim sentenced the girls to death on Wednesday in the town of Belet Weyne for spying for government soldiers fighting the Islamist group al-Shabab.
The local al-Shabab administration appoints judges and the only qualifications required are that the person must be a man who knows the Koran.
Al-Shabab is linked to al-Qa'ida and has carried out several whippings, amputations and executions to enforce its own strict interpretation of Islam. This was the first public execution of girls in Belet Weyne, a western Somali town.
Abdiwali Aden, a witness, told the Associated Press by phone that al-Shabab militiamen had walked through Belet Weyne's streets, informing residents about the pending executions by loudspeaker and ordering everyone to attend. Ayan Mohamed Jama, 18, and Huriyo Ibrahim, 15, were brought before hundreds of residents. Ten masked men opened fire on the girls, who were blindfolded, soon after the sentencing.
As the girls were shot, they shouted "There is no God but Allah", said a witness who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals.
A woman fainted after she saw the girls being shot, said Da'ud Ahmed, another witness.
An al-Shabab official, Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, said the girls had admitted to spying. But Sadia Osman, who witnessed the execution, said one of the girls said she was innocent.
Sheikh Ugas also warned residents against using their mobile phones or cameras to document the execution, saying those violating his rule risked amputation.
Human Rights Watch said in an April report that al-Shabab imposes "unrelenting repression and brutality".
Al-Shabab, which vows allegiance to al-Qa'ida and whose members include foreign fighters, controls large parts of southern Somalia and much of the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia has not had an effective central government for 19 years. The UN-backed government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu, while its allies control much of central Somalia.
MACDANIFE
12:14 PM ET
March 22, 2011
welcome to the asylmuslim
Two Somali girls executed by firing squad 'for spying'
By Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu
Friday, 29 October 2010
An Islamic group that controls much of southern Somalia executed two girls by firing squad, and hundreds of residents of a town were forced to view the spectacle.
Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim sentenced the girls to death on Wednesday in the town of Belet Weyne for spying for government soldiers fighting the Islamist group al-Shabab.
The local al-Shabab administration appoints judges and the only qualifications required are that the person must be a man who knows the Koran.
Al-Shabab is linked to al-Qa'ida and has carried out several whippings, amputations and executions to enforce its own strict interpretation of Islam. This was the first public execution of girls in Belet Weyne, a western Somali town.
Abdiwali Aden, a witness, told the Associated Press by phone that al-Shabab militiamen had walked through Belet Weyne's streets, informing residents about the pending executions by loudspeaker and ordering everyone to attend. Ayan Mohamed Jama, 18, and Huriyo Ibrahim, 15, were brought before hundreds of residents. Ten masked men opened fire on the girls, who were blindfolded, soon after the sentencing.
As the girls were shot, they shouted "There is no God but Allah", said a witness who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals.
A woman fainted after she saw the girls being shot, said Da'ud Ahmed, another witness.
An al-Shabab official, Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, said the girls had admitted to spying. But Sadia Osman, who witnessed the execution, said one of the girls said she was innocent.
Sheikh Ugas also warned residents against using their mobile phones or cameras to document the execution, saying those violating his rule risked amputation.
Human Rights Watch said in an April report that al-Shabab imposes "unrelenting repression and brutality".
Al-Shabab, which vows allegiance to al-Qa'ida and whose members include foreign fighters, controls large parts of southern Somalia and much of the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia has not had an effective central government for 19 years. The UN-backed government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu, while its allies control much of central Somalia.
CPPTHIS
9:11 PM ET
March 20, 2011
What goes around comes around
They loved the West when it was profitable, now the chips are down and they show their true colors, running back to help Daddy kill the rebels and save their vast gravy train. Time to pay the piper, kiddies.
MAXIPR
9:11 PM ET
March 20, 2011
Why...
Why couldn't he just live the life with his family, without power but in the end, he will have the whole world by having his family.
Just my 2 cent
Maria @ electric fence
ASAD KHAN
5:16 AM ET
March 22, 2011
50-50 divide .
Ofcourse there is large number of rebels but there are as many supporters of Qaddafi.The pictures show the rebels are well armed.where the rebels are getting these arms from.who is behind them.
BASEM
10:22 PM ET
March 23, 2011
The rebels got the weapons
The rebels got the weapons from Gaddafi's own depot's in the east. Gadafi is a murderer and has very few supporters in Libya (I'm Libyan, I know). We have been living in oppresion and poverty in an oil rich country that is extremely underdeveloped. there were several big protests in Tripoli a few weeks back but they were suppressed quickly with live gun fire and abductions.
ASAD KHAN
9:22 AM ET
March 26, 2011
50-50 divide .
Thank you for enlightening me.outsiders cant see things right.Russia abstained from voting for this reason as declared by the president himself.Uganda president in his long article mentions about the metelled roads on which the rebels are seen running their vehicles.Is not that development.Has not Gadafi built oil refineries which were not their.Libyas GDP is $60 billion.where the money goes to.We cant expect Libya to be a democracy like Britain,US and India but reforms are overdue.That can be after the end of the hostilities.US led coalition is bent upon removing Qaddafi.In this situation how can there be a dialogue>The Army acted wisely in Egypt.There perhaps was no such institution in Libya.I wish Libya and its people well.The Arab League and the African union could play a positive role.
COMETLINEAR
6:35 PM ET
March 22, 2011
I wonder if anyone else noticed the kid's T-shirt
A US Sailor no less!
USAMA2
12:37 PM ET
March 23, 2011
Th
As usual, the Western media spills all kinds of dirt on someone like Qaddafi when it suits them- but not before. Why is that?
Why no mention that Qaddafi is the son of a Jewish woman and an Italian but raised by a Libyan Arab who was a servant of an Italian cardinal?
Why no mention that one of Qaddafi's son took a plane to Israel and returned with Israeli advisors before his counteroffensive?
USAMA2
12:41 PM ET
March 23, 2011
Also, Qaddafi's coup was
Also, Qaddafi's coup was assisted by Mi6.
As well, Algeria sent it's special forces units, equipment, aircraft to aid Qaddafi,but the West doesn't want to share that intel with you folks, letting you feed on the usual western media crap they feed you daily to maintain tneir narrative and control.
JUAN67
10:35 PM ET
March 23, 2011
to Editor
It s Muatassim in pic No. 4 not Saif , this is when he was a commander of the 77 brigade famously known as Muatassim's brigade
AKKAN
6:45 PM ET
March 26, 2011
This guy killed an airplane
This guy killed an airplane and everybody knew that , innocent people died . But who explains that why united nations or another coutries did not anythig ? Meanwhile ; libyan society was nonreactive since 40 years .Do you realy believe that ,this revalution depends on real factors ?
CODE PROMO
7:09 PM ET
March 31, 2011
who is the next drug addict ,
who is the next drug addict , the one who will replace him for the bad job of financing horror in the world ?
Like ira terrorists,and all others.
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CODE PROMO
7:16 PM ET
March 31, 2011
No education at all and head
No education at all and head of state surrounded by killers
his prime minister and minister of defence commander jalloud was an alcoholic (according to HIGH RANKING diplomats who kew him) so it was easier for him to kill his own people.
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DOMINOMAN
7:23 PM ET
April 16, 2011
Russia abstained from voting
Russia abstained from voting for this reason as declared by the president himself.Uganda president in his long article mentions about the metelled roads on which the rebels are seen running their vehicles.Is not that development.Has not Gadafi built oil refineries which were not their.Libyas GDP is $60 billion.where the money goes to.We cant expect Libya to be a democracy stavkove kancelarielike Britain,US and India but reforms are overdue.That can be after the end of the hostilities.US led coalition is bent upon removing Qaddafi.In this situation how can there be a dialogue>The Army acted wisely in stavkove kancelarie Egypt.There perhaps was no such institution in Libya.I wish Libya and its people well.The Arab League and the African union could play a positive role.Abdiwali Aden, a witness, told the Associated Press by phone that al-Shabab militiamen had walked through Belet Weyne's streets, informing residents about the pending executions by loudspeaker and ordering everyone to attend. Ayan Mohamed Jama, 18, and Huriyo Ibrahim, 15, were brought before hundreds of residents. Ten masked men opened fire on the girls, who were blindfolded, soon after the sentencing.As the girls were shot, they shouted "There is no God but Allah", said a witness who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals.A woman fainted after she saw the girls being shot, said Da'ud Ahmed, another witness.An al-Shabab official, Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, said the girls had admitted to spying. But Sadia Osman, who witnessed the execution, said one of the girls said she was innocent.