Libya Says It Has Captured Qaddafi’s Son Seif al-Islam
Libya’s transitional government said Saturday that its fighters in the southern
desert had captured Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the last fugitive son and one-time
heir apparent of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In a scene of celebration outstripped only by news of Colonel Qaddafi’s capture
and death last month, Tripoli’s streets erupted into revelry. Vehicles clogged
intersections, horns blaring, and militiamen shot their rifles into the sky.
Officials in the capital promised that the son would be closely guarded so he
could face trial. But in a troubling echo of Colonel Qaddafi’s capture a month
ago, in which he was killed while in the hands of militiamen without ever
reaching the capital, the local militias who announced Seif al-Islam’s capture
on Saturday suggested they would be the brokers of his fate, at least for now.
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