Could Libya be ruled again by a Qaddafi?
A comeback by Muammar Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam can no longer be ruled out
TEN YEARS ago, when Muammar Qaddafi met a grisly end after 42 years in power, no one thought that a member of his family might ever end up back in charge of Libya. During the Arab spring a wave of euphoria washed across the country after the dictator’s demise. His seven sons were captured, killed or fled into exile. Seif al-Islam, the second eldest, was caught by a militia, put in a prison cage, indicted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and sentenced to death by Libya’s new regime.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “One Qaddafi wasn’t enough”
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