REUTERS EXCLUSIVE-By Marie-Louise Gumuchian
The capture of Gaddafi’s son
* Captors offer first reconstruction of Gaddafi son’s life on run
* Anonymous tipster betrayed Gaddafi’s caravan – captor
* Gaddafi denies having tried to negotiate with ICC
* “He thought we would kill him” – captor
OBARI, Libya, Nov 20 (Reuters) – The chic black sweater and jeans were gone. So too the combat khaki T-shirt of his televised last stand in Tripoli. Designer stubble had become bushy black beard after months on the run.
But the rimless glasses, framing those piercing eyes above that straight fine nose, gave him away despite the flowing nomad robes held close across his face.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, doctor of the London School of Economics, one-time reformer turned scourge of the rebels against his dictator father, was now a prisoner, bundled aboard an old Libyan air force transport plane near the oil-drilling outpost of Obari, deep in the Sahara desert.
The interim government’s spokesman billed it as the “final act of the Libyan drama”. But there would be no closing soliloquy from the lead player, scion of the dynasty that Muammar Gaddafi, self-styled “king of kings,” had once hoped might rule Africa. Continued…