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Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi, also spelt as Al-Saadi Moammer Al-Gaddafi (Arabic: الساعدي معمر القذافي; born 25 May 1973), is a Libyan retired professional football player. He captained the national team , but his career was widely attributed to the influence of his father Muammar Gaddafi , the country's leader at the time.
According to the leader of the Libyan Islamist Fighting Group, Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, he and fellow leader Sami al-Saadi were tortured in Abu Salim Prison by Libyan interrogators. Belhaj had been kidnapped in Bangkok in 2004 alongside his pregnant wife, Fatima Boudchar, and their four children, and claimed a tip-off from MI6 had led to their capture.
Saadi Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi's surviving sons in exile in Niger, said through an attorney that he was "shocked and outraged by vicious brutality" toward his father and his brother, Mutassim, and that the killing showed that the new Libyan leadership could not be trusted to hold fair trials. [80]
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The couple remained married until his death. Together they had seven biological children: [22] Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (born 1972), Al-Saadi Gaddafi (born 1973), Mutassim Gaddafi (1974–2011), Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi (born 1975), Ayesha Gaddafi (born 1976), Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (1982–2011), and Khamis Gaddafi (1983–2011).
The death of Gaddafi and the end of the campaign were viewed as a "rare clear-cut victory" for NATO after long operations in Afghanistan and anti-piracy patrols off Somalia. According to Michael Clarke, director of the London-based Royal United Services Institute think tank, "NATO can say unambiguously this was a military and political success ...
A member of the group in Tripoli's Abu Salim neighbourhood, a former pro-Gaddafi stronghold, claimed in an August 2012 interview that loyalist militia were rebuilding their strength and waiting for the right moment to move against the new government. [5] Saadi Gaddafi was claimed to support the group whilst under house arrest in Niger. [41]
A U.S. drone strike blew up a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing a high-ranking commander of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia who is responsible for “directly planning and ...