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Saif al-Islam, Muammar Qaddafi's eldest son who has been on the run across Africa since his father's death, is weighing the options for his survival and the preservation of the fortune the Qaddafis amassed in their 42-year rule over Libya. One would be to turn himself into the International Criminal Court in The Hague which seeks his arrest on a crimes against humanity warrant issued in June. Saturday, Oct. 29, the ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo confirmed informal negotiations through intermediaries for his surrender although Saif al-Islam insists he is innocent. The Libya interim government has put in a prior claim...

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir apparent, Saif al-Islam, and ex-intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi have reportedly suggested turning themselves in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. ­The news comes from NTC senior Libyan military official Abdel Majid Mlegta, as quoted by Reuters. Since NTC forces took control of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, the colonel’s son has remained in hiding. He is believed to be somewhere near Libya's southern border with Niger. According to the NTC official, Saif al-Islam and Senussi are trying to broker a deal to surrender to the court through a neighboring country. Which country...

According to Libyan military officials, Saif al-Islam, the influential son of slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi is in critical condition and has been hospitalized after losing his arm. This follows reports of Saif al-Islam being arrested in Libya's coastal city of Ziltan after receiving injuries in his lower back and earlier accounts suggesting his death. Saif al-Islam's brother Mo'tassim Gaddafi was also recently found dead in the city of Sirte, after National Transitional Forces (NTC) overcame Gaddafi loyalists in the northern coastal city. Libya's Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril has called on neighboring Algeria to hand over members of Gaddafi's family,...

Moammar Ghaddafi's son Seif el-Islam, heir-apparent top-dog in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahariya, is pretending to pressure the Arab League to democratize. He's getting a lot of great press in the West (I goofed and gave him some, too), and he doesn't deserve a bit of it. This little snippet from the New York Times makes the lad sound like some kind of hero. "'Democracy is the future,' Mr. Qaddafi, 32, said at his Moroccan-style villa outside Tripoli, where he keeps a white tiger, Freddo, among other exotic pets. 'We have to be ahead of the world in...

Libyan ruler’s son offers Jews compensation, if they leave their homes in Israel to Palestinians. Itamar Inbari Ever since Libya's declaration of readiness to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, and the initial reports of secret contacts between Tripoli and Jerusalem, questions about compensation for Libyan Jews are in the air. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan ruler, today presented a clear response, declaring: “we will pay compensation to Jews whose property was confiscated before they left for Israel.” In an interview with the Egyptian newspaper, "Al-Ahram al Arabi", Gadhafi's son sounded a conciliatory message toward Israel’s direction, declaring that he...

On a visit to Paris during which he met with French President Jacques Chirac, the son of Libyan ruler Muammar Al-Qaddafi, Sayf Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi, gave an interview to the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat. The following are excerpts from the interview: [1] 'The Libyan People is Interested in Progress, Development, and Democracy' Question: "Do you think the problem of the UTA [2] plane [for which Libya was responsible] and the damages paid to the families of the victims has been completely resolved with Paris?" Sayf Al-Islam: "I heard personally from President Chiracthat we have solved the problem of the UTA plane,...

Saif al-Islam, the son of Libya's leader Muammar al-Qadhafi, has denied recent news reports about his meeting a member of the Israeli Knesset on the sidelines of an international parliamentary conference in Athens. He has said, however, that Libya no longer considers Israel a security threat nor is his country in a confrontation with Israel. In an exclusive interview with Aljazeera.net on Thursday, Saif al-Islam described the recent news reports as malicious rumours being spread by "some Arab countries" to spite Libya because of his country's latest political successes (in breaking its international isolation). Saif al-Islam is al-Qaddafi's second eldest...

Jan. 5 — DUBAI (Reuters) - The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday denied reports his country would allow U.S. and British troops to be based on its territory after Tripoli agreed to give up its weapons of mass destruction programs. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told the Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that Libya welcomed British and American "experts in various fields, but not forces in the military sense." Britain's Sunday Times newspaper had quoted Saif al-Islam as saying there would be "no problem" with British or U.S. troops being stationed in Libya. "We are giving up our weapons, so...