His name offered an alternative line of succession that Libya’s rival elites could neither control nor neutralise.
Anas El Gomati is the Founder and Director General of the Sadeq Institute, Libya's first public policy think tank based in Tripoli.
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was shot 19 times inside his compound in Zintan, a mountain town in western Libya, where he had lived since his capture in 2011. Four masked men entered the compound after disabling the security cameras. Roughly 90 minutes earlier, his guards had withdrawn from the area for reasons that remain unexplained. When the shooting ended, the assailants did not flee. They left. No gunfight. No pursuit. No claim of responsibility. The perpetrators vanished into the kind of silence that, in Libya, usually means the killers have nothing to fear from an investigation.
