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Slain dictator Gaddafi’s only daughter booted from Algerian safe house for repeatedly setting it on fire
When the daughter of a deposed dictator was forced to flee her home, she had no problem in finding a safe retreat.
But Aisha Gaddafi proved too hot to handle for those who welcomed her in – she has been thrown out of her Algerian safe-house for repeatedly setting it on fire.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 37-year-old daughter has an arrest warrant against her name after she fled Libya when her father was deposed and then killed two years ago.
The western educated lawyer arrived in Algeria with other family members after her husband – an army general – was killed in the bombing raids that destroyed Gaddafi’s regime. (AFP/Getty Images)
Ottawa asks RCMP to investigate Saadi Gaddafi’s Toronto condo
The federal government said Thursday it has asked the RCMP to look into a $1.6-million Toronto condo owned by the wanted son of the late Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
“This matter has been referred to the RCMP,” Joseph Lavoie, press secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, responded when asked about the downtown property.
The move came after the National Post reported on Thursday that Saadi Gaddafi, who is the subject of a United Nations-imposed assets freeze, is the listed owner of a penthouse on the Toronto waterfront.
The RCMP has not said if it has launched an investigation into whether the sanctions have been violated. The Department of Justice ultimately decides whether properties should be seized.
Saadi Gaddafi owns a $1.6M penthouse in Toronto
The Gaddafi family owns a $1.6-million penthouse apartment in downtown Toronto that has apparently gone unnoticed by the Canadian and Libyan governments, the National Post has learned.
The luxury condo atop the Harbor View Estates building on the Toronto waterfront comes with a view of Lake Ontario and access to a 25-metre swimming pool, squash, basketball and tennis courts and a bowling alley.
Although the United Nations Security Council ordered countries to freeze the Gaddafis’ worldwide assets in response to Libya’s crackdown on demonstrators, Ontario property records still list the condo’s owner as “Saadi Kaddafi.”
A night on Muammar Gaddafi’s bed: ‘I slept like a self-assured dictator’
While I lay in silence, my eyes adjusted to the darkness and I could hear the fighters talking excitedly next door — I felt like a child who had been put to bed early.
Muammar Gaddafi’s room was large, but not enormous and his monstrous bed took up the majority of the room. Two tacky chandeliers hung from the ceiling. (Photo: Oliver Holmes/Reuters)
Gary Clement’s week in review for Oct. 23 to 29, 2011
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Map: Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, where he was reportedly captured and killed by NTC forces
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Muammar Gaddafi reportedly captured as Libyan forces seize Sirte
Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been captured and wounded in both legs, National Transitional Council (NTC) official Abdel Majid said on Thursday
“He’s captured. He’s wounded in both legs … He’s been taken away by ambulance,” the senior NTC military official told Reuters by telephone.
The U.S. State Department says it cannot confirm the capture, though a Libyan government fighter in Sirte tells Reuters he was an eyewitness.
Libyan interim government fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi’s home town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader and ending a two-month siege. (Photo: Louafi Larbi/Reuters)
Defiant Gaddafi vows to stay in Libya despite manhunt
Muammar Gaddafi resurfaced on the air waves to berate his enemies as rats and stray dogs and insist he was still in Libya to fight on, but he offered them no clues about where they could find him.
His defiant comments to a Syrian TV station came as the forces of Libya’s new government tightened a siege on the tribal bastion of Bani Walid, where some suspect the ousted strongman and two of his sons may be sheltering. In exchanges of fire, Gaddafi loyalists in the town launched Grad rockets.
“Our resolute Libyan people, the Libyan land is your own. Those who try to take it from you now, they are intruders, they are mercenaries, they are stray dogs. They are trying to seize our ancestral land from you but this is impossible.
“We will not leave our ancestral land,” Gaddafi said.
Graphic: Weapons missing in Libya
It is possible international terrorist groups are arming themselves with highly accurate and sophisticated heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles abandoned by Libyan troops when deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi fled Tripoli two weeks ago.
Researchers with Human Rights Watch have discovered weapons storage sites in Libya where dozens — and possibly thousands — of surface-to-air missiles appear to be missing.
Everything, from shoulder-fired Russian anti-aircraft missiles to poison gas to massive stockpiles of conventional weaponry, remain unguarded in overflowing armaments dumps all over Libya.
“If these weapons fall into the wrong hands, all of North Africa could be a no-fly zone,” said Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch.
Libyans pledge democracy as they win Gaddafi billions
Libya’s new leadership reaffirmed their commitment to democracy and good governance on Friday as they worked on how to spend billions of dollars they have been given from the frozen assets of fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
A day after international powers met in Paris and agreed to hand over US$15-billion to the rebels who overthrew Col. Gaddafi last week, the European Union, a key trading partner, rescinded a range of sanctions and officials from the National Transitional Council told financiers about their initial rebuilding plans. (Photo: Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images)
The $1.7-million question: Where’s Gaddafi?
NATO is understood to be using spy planes, electronic eavesdropping, and special forces teams in the hunt for Col. Muammar Gaddafi. But the hunt’s most important asset could be the prevailing political climate, because information about Col. Gaddafi’s location would be easier to obtain if his close aides prepared to defect. A US$1.7-million bounty on his head, as well as amnesty for anyone turning in the despot, could turn the tide against the colonel. (Al-Manara Media/AFP/Getty Images)
Libya rebels seize Gaddafi compound
Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli on Tuesday after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight “to the end.”
Reuters journalists watched rebel fighters stream through the sprawling Bab al-Aziziya headquarters compound, firing in the air in celebration after hours of heavy clashes. But it was unclear whether the “Brother Leader” or his sons were still somewhere in the complex’s maze of buildings and bunkers.
Defensive fire died away and hundreds of jubilant rebels poured in. Some smashed a statue of Gaddafi. Others hunted through dozens of buildings, unchallenged, seizing weaponry and vehicles. The rebels’ envoy to the United Nations said the area was “totally in the hands of the revolutionaries.”
One man shouted: “It’s over. Gaddafi is finished.”
Photo: Libyan rebel fighters celebrate after their entering the Bab al Aziziya compound in Tripoli August 23, 2011. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
