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Africa: North
Gaddafi’s family member in Berlin hospital: reports
2005-08-18
BERLIN - A member of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi’s close family - possibly a son - has been rushed by air ambulance to a hospital in the German capital after being injured in a car crash, media reports said on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the Libyan embassy in Berlin would neither confirm nor deny the reports. “I cannot say anything,” said the spokeswoman.
According to a report in the B.Z. newspaper, a 34-year-old man from Gaddafi’s family was flown to Berlin on Tuesday after suffering severe head injuries in car crash in Libya.
Another one of those desert car crashes, huh?
After arriving at a city airport, he was taken by emergency helicopter to special hospital in Berlin’s Marzahn district which deals with accident victims. B.Z. said bodyguards accompanying the man had used a suitcase filled with cash to pay in advance for all medical treatment.
Only the best for one of Gaddafi's boys. According to Google, Al-Saadi Gaddafi is in Australia playing football. Anyone got a list of his kin with ages, see which one is 34 years old?
Posted by:Steve

#8  But Mike, it was in all the newspapers.
Posted by: Matt   2005-08-18 19:07  

#7  Now - do ANY of those lists of the Colonel's Kids list the daughter who supposedly died during ELDORADO CANYON back in '86?...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2005-08-18 18:57  

#6  Emily -- outstanding website, one we should keep an eye on.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-08-18 17:35  

#5  'Nother update from the same site:

But then there's the Colonel's likely-successor: the debonair son Saif, who speaks French and German and likes to hob-nob with European politicians like Austria's notorious Jorg Haider (plus keep a pet tiger in his apartment). Now, Saif is trying to burst onto the European art scene with a traveling exhibit of original paintings entitled: The Desert is Not Silent ("We speak of new... beginning" is the exhibit's tagline).

So what are the artistic skills of the Middle East's longest-serving dictator's son? Actually, not as terrible as you might think. Browse the complete gallery online.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-08-18 17:18  

#4  Found a new blog today: ...Or does it explode?

Here's his(?) post on Qadaffi's Qidz:

There's son Mutassim (a.k.a Hannibal, as in Lecter), with his penchant for speeding through Paris, trashing European hotel rooms, attacking police in Rome, crashing his yacht in Sardinia -- and getting away with it.

**UPDATE: Mutassim recently received a suspended sentence in France for beating up his girlfriend**

Then there's son Saadi, the Libyan answer to Uday Hussein. Saadi evidently has delusions of soccer greatness, insisting on playing for the Libyan national team and firing the team's coach. He managed to join the European team Perugia only to be kicked off for illegal doping. When the crowd at a Libyan soccer match started chanting against him, he ordered his bodyguards to fire into the stands - killing several people.

Daughter Aisha, known as the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa, has made headlines for joining Saddam Hussein's legal defense team (she has a law degree from Libya's Al-Fatih University).

Son Sayf (Arabic for "sword") is a 32-year-old bachelor and oft-mentioned heir to the Colonel's... well, throne. He keeps tigers in his apartment in Vienna and hangs out with Jorge Haider.

First-born Muhammed and his brother Mualassim have fallen out of favor with the Colonel.

It's all a riot until you imagine growing up in Libya with this dysfunctional family dominating the country... and terrorizing the national soccer team. And you have no way to hold them accountable.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-08-18 17:15  

#3  I'd do a one-for-one Kennedy-hadghaffi swap anytime. The berber boyz don't seem lazy.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-08-18 16:44  

#2  Wikipedia Sez:
Qaddafi has eight children, seven of them sons. His oldest son, Muhammad Qaddafi, is by a wife now in disfavor, but runs the Libyan Olympic Committee.
The next eldest Al-Saadi Qaddafi (32), runs the Libyan Football Federation, plays for Italian Serie A team Perugia, and produces films.
He's in Australia right now, if he's 32 and the second oldest, that makes Muhammad Qaddafi the leading candidate
The third eldest, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, a painter, runs a charity which has been involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in the Philippines. Humm, according to al-Jiz Saif al-Islam is al-Qaddafi's second eldest son and is said to be his intended heir and is reportedly been studying in the UK for the past two years. Confusing, ain't it?
His only daughter is Ayesha Qaddafi, a lawyer who has joined the defense team of Saddam Hussein. All have been speculated to be possible successors.
Three more sons, Al Moatassim, Hannbil, and Khamees, are less prominent. (In September 2004, Hannbil was involved in a police chase in Paris.) Hannbil likes to drive fast, huh?
Posted by: Steve   2005-08-18 16:37  

#1  Hopefully Gaddafi pays him a visit in the hospital.

And brings the fembots.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2005-08-18 16:12  

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