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Summary Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi has lashed out at rebels and NATO, and vowed to fight till his last.
Libyas interim government had said he was captured this weekend, but at the very same time the 39-year-old appeared on Syrian television.We continue our resistance. Im in Libya, alive, free and intend to go to the very end and exact revenge, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi was heard saying on Syrian TV. I say go to hell, you rats and NATO behind you. This is our country, we live in it, and we die in it and we are continuing the struggle.The short message was broadcast on Syrian TV station Al-Rai on Sunday and was soon uploaded by several users onto YouTube. Its not clear if the audio-only message was broadcast live or was a recording. The Al-Rai station broadcasts into Libya, and in the past has broadcast messages from Moammar Gaddafi.As the hunt for Saif intensifies, his brother Saadi Gaddafi, who escaped the country in September as rebel forces began to close in, has publicly lashed out about the death of his father and brother.Under house arrest in Nigeria, Saadi issued a blistering condemnation of the way his father was treated after capture.These barbaric executions and the grotesque abuse of the corpses make it clear that no person affiliated with the former regime will receive a fair trial in Libya, he said through his publicist.As news and video footage of his death surfaced, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights called for an investigation into the events surrounding his death; though video seems to show him in rebel custody, he allegedly died in crossfire.Libyas acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said that he would not oppose a full investigation under international supervision into his death, according to The Associated Press.The fate of one of Gaddafis other sons, Moutassim Gaddafi, is quite clear however: his body now lies with his fathers on display in a meat refrigerator for all of Libya to see.Three of the Gaddafi children -- Moutassim, Khamis and Said al-Arab -- have been killed in the rebellion. Three more, Hannibal, Mohammed and Gaddafis only daughter Aisha – once called the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa -- are now living in exile in Algeria with Gaddafis wife Safia.Across Libya there is still sympathy for the Gaddafi family. The interim government officially declared the country ‘liberated’ this weekend, and has promised to bring democracy.While celebratory gunshots rang out across the capital of Tripoli, it has been one non-stop party as Libya begins its transition to democracy. A new interim government is expected to be declared within a month, with elections for a constitutional assembly expected within eight months.
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