Saif al-Islam

Video Released of Saif Al-Islam After Capture

  • First Posted: Nov 22 2011 10:58 AM

Gadhafi's son chills out with his captors, apparently just happy to avoid getting the same treatment as pops.

New video footage of Saif al-Islam, the son and heir apparent of Moammar Gadhafi, has emerged, showing a man with what appears to be broken fingers warning his captors that the residents of Misrata and Benghazi would soon turn on their liberators. Islam was captured on Saturday, but escaped the same fate of his father, who is believed to have been summarily executed shortly after rebels captured him in Sirte. Islam, sporting a beard and looking far too much like Arrested Development's Tobias Funke (seriously), acts awfully casually while chatting with his captors in the town of Zintan. Libyan officials have said that Islam, who before the Libyan uprising was widely seen as a modernizing and reform-minded force in the Gadhafi clan, would face a fair trial for his role in the war.

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