Colonel Muammar Gaddafi met an unpleasant end just over a year ago, but what has happened to his wife, his eight children, and his close associates? Safiya Gaddafi, his wife and mother of seven of his children, has been given refuge in Algeria on “humanitarian” grounds. She is living privately in a villa near Algiers, together with her daughter Aisha and recently-born granddaughter, also named Safiya.
Three of Gaddafi’s sons were killed during the conflict. Mutassim, who served as Libya’s National Security Adviser, was killed at about the same time as his father. Saif al-Arab, who was a military commander in the Libyan Army, was killed during a NATO bombing. Khamis, who was commander of the elite Khamis Brigade, was also killed during the conflict.
Gaddafi’s eldest son Muhammad, the former head of the Libyan Olympic Committee, is living in exile in Algeria. Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi’s second son, is still in custody in Libya. Saadi, who had a brief career as a professional soccer player, and who is the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant, is living in exile in Niger. Hannibal is believed to be living in Algeria.
Among Gaddafi’s former associates, the former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi is currently in custody in Libya. Musa Kusa, former foreign intelligence chief, defected during the uprising and now lives in Qatar. The whereabouts of Musa Ibrahim, the former government spokesman, are unknown.