The explainer: Throughout his rogue years, it has often been Qaddafi’s son, Seif al-Islam, who has answered to the world for the actions of his sometimes unanswering father. Seif al-Islam is the founder of Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, an organization that works against terrorism and facilitated negotiations and release of six Bulgarian medics held in Libya for nine years for allegedly infecting 400 children with HIV. Seif al-Islam told New Yorker writer Andrew Solomon in 2006 that in the 1980s, Libya was “expecting America to attack us anytime—our whole defensive strategy was how to deal with the Americans. We used terrorism and violence because these are the weapons of the weak against the strong. … Now that we have peace with America, there is no need for terrorism, no need for nuclear bombs.”