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Not Captured After All: Gadhafi’s Son Spotted at Libyan Hotel, Says He ‘Broke Backbone of Rebels’

Saif al Islam Not Captured, Gaddafi in Tripoli Libya They Will Trap Rebels
Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Seif al-Islam, top left, gestures to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Seif al-Islam, who was earlier reported arrested by Libya’s rebels, turned up early Tuesday morning at the hotel where foreign journalists stay in Tripoli, then took reporters in his convoy on a drive through the city. (AP Photo/Imed Lamloum, Pool)

Col. Muammar Gadhafi’s son and heir Saif al-Islam, who was believed to have been captured and detained by rebel forces, appeared Monday at the Libyan hotel, Rixos.

CNN correspondent Matthew Chance had a brief encounter with Saif, who pulled up in a white Land Cruiser and allowed the reporter to take photographs and conduct a brief interview. According to Chance, Saif said his father, along with the rest of his family, are all alive and well and currently in Tripoli. The colonel’s son also mentioned rumors of his capture were merely a “trap” and that he has in fact “broken the backbone of the rebels.”

Saif al Islam Not Captured, Gaddafi in Tripoli Libya They Will Trap Rebels

Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, top left, gestures to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Seif al-Islam, who was earlier reported arrested by Libya's rebels, turned up early Tuesday morning at the hotel where foreign journalists stay in Tripoli, then took reporters in his convoy on a drive through the city. (AP Photo/Imed Lamloum, Pool)

He then sped off in a convey of armored Land Cruisers.

Watch Chance relay his bizarre encounter below:

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  • Mr_Meaner
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:43pm

    This one’s hard to sort out.
    It didn’t make sense to me that Ghaddafi would be captured. But, just because Ghaddafi and especially his son, who was supposed to have been captured, (Saif) are Soros puppets, that doesnt necessarily mean that they wouldn’t be thrown under the bus. But (again) since the UN have pretty much just been making noise over there, as if to stall for time to arrange a new regime, and there have been reports of an offer from Chavez to allow Ghaddafi to relocate to Venezuela, the whole thing reeks of a bungled attempt to manage the collateral damage caused by their own Arab spring.
    And, you have to take in to account that even though Ghaddafi and crew have always played ball with the left, he is a leftist, thus insane…and most likely a narcissist, not willing to give up power.
    This thing could go a number of different ways.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:56pm

      UH OH !!!!! OOPS……. Looks like someone wanted us to believe things were going better than
      they are, doesn’t it ???

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 11:29pm

      I see Trojan Horse ….Bring in all the Rebels, and……..to easy.

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  • redbone007
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:40pm

    This adminstration wanted to take the focus away from Glenn’s success in Israel. What a better way of doing it by say Obama’s got Gaddafi.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:23am

      Yeah all that .01% of the US population that are even aware of Glenn Beck in Israel, they are distracted. Idiot.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:25pm

    I can hear MoMo Junior now saying, “Skin ‘em out Dad, I’ll got get some more! Be right back.”

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:29pm

      Remember, it’ll be over in days, not weeks. (or months)

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  • THECROWN
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:23pm

    Have any of you stopped for a minute to ask yourself why the Libyans in the streets are waiving the Libyan flags? They are the Gaddafi loyalists. Gaddafi armed his civilian population with 2 million machine guns. They are willing to die for him. Stop propagating the lies from FOX, CNN, MSNBC! The US and NATO are working with Al Qaeda on this one. Wake up sheeple!! Let’s try to NOT GIVE LIBYA TO THE CROWN! Don’t you think the crown has enough already?

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:17pm

    Lies from the left… betcha Bin Laden still lives!!

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  • INOGAWD
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:11pm

    This sounds like a “Big Aw Shi** ” for Bama..

    Looks like Momar gonna be “shooting Fish in a barrel”

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  • username112973
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:06pm

    How come the International Criminal Court confirmed that Gaddafi’s son was captured. That’s not just a slight or little mistake. Seems like a lot of propoganda going on with news reports. The question is who is doing the propoganda? Is it the rebels, mainstream media or Gaddafi?

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  • chips1
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:23pm

    Maybe it’s just a week for all the worlds dictators to take vacation breaks. Obama and now Gadaffi’s son. Is this a 4 star hotel? He must have a Blackberry with BO’s number so they could relax together. Sort of like a “Time Out”.

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:22pm

    Kwakdaffy.

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  • merd01
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:21pm

    I just don’t get it. Why does the media insist on interviewing these criminals instead of turning them over to the authorities? Am I naive? Expecting too much of the MSM?

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  • friscokid1
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:12pm

    “He then sped off in a convey of armored Land Cruisers.”
    I believe that should be convoy that they sped off in. If you cannot exercise proper grammar and spelling you should refrain from putting the article out.

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    • jumpinjackflash
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:12pm

      friscokidi Get over it. If thats all you have to bitch abut is The Blazes errors, go somewhere else.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Thanks Jumpin,,,, I get so bloody tired of people raving on about a little mistake. We all make them
      and on some of the posts I have to read and reread to understand.

      People make mistakes. That is life.

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:09pm

    As it already is, it will take 6-12 months to restore oil production from Libya. I’m betting that when these guys go down, so will a lot of oil infrastructure.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:03pm

    When I was watching this on Fox, the reporter was saying how they lie all the time. Reminded me of how so many are so fooled by Muslims/Islam….they are taught that to lie is a noble thing to do if it promotes their agenda (you know, like the libs/Dems – the end justifies the means). So – of course it’s rampant but we Americans seem to believe everything they say to us – they are “peaceful”, etc., etc. Ah…that reminds me of our wonderful dear leader and his regime as well. Sigh……….so many liars…..so little time.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:08pm

      The ends justify the means?that the american ethos we subcibed to through out our history; when propping up brutal dictators,sending people to be tortutred to them, dropping bombs on the men,women and children in iraq afghabistran ,pakistan, viet nam etc.,etc..Whole sale killing of civilians for the “greater good” is our MO and always has been.And the greater good has aalways meant our interests at the expense of others!

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  • jessieH
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:59pm

    Don’t listen to rumors, our so-called media makes stuff up, daily. Wait for the facts. You know, like the media used to do. They used to be the best of the best. I wonder what happened to their integrity?

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:05pm

      Those with the highest ratings win the most money. Integrity earns nothing. Sad.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:10pm

      They are Socialists First, Americans second

      This applies to DEMOCRATS also.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:16pm

      EXSHEEPCURRENTLEMMING, You mistake “integrity” for “fealty”. I’ll give you a moment to look up that definition before laughing at you…..time’s up.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:25pm

      @MODEL82A1 My words are correct as they are. Please refer to your thesaurus (aka your mom) before trying to correct inferences that are beyond you.

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    • lolek et gipper ad murro berlinus
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Gaddafi’s son appeared as a hologram in the hotel lobby. Kadafi’s real son is in captivity. His other sons no matter how they spell their names may soon be heard from.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Sorry, EXSHEEPCURRENTLEMMING, everyone reading these posts has seen you repeatedly humiliated here. Please do keep coming back, though. It’s a lot like 300 yard stationary target practice. It’s an almost unfair confidence booster. You never even looked up “fealty”, did you? After all, one must have to make a concerted effort to stay as ignorant as you are, even if one is an idiot.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:45pm

      model. It’s apparently past your bedtime. Go dunk some Oreos and hit the rack.

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  • Beckett
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:58pm

    Both of the sons are free – very odd.

    Saif al-Islam Gadhafi showed up at the Rixos Hotel, one of the remaining strongholds of pro-Gadhafi forces, in a convoy of armored Land Cruisers. In a brief interview with CNN’s Matthew Chance, he said his father and several of his sisters were safe in Tripoli, and that loyal troops had “broken the back” of the rebels who moved into the capital over the weekend.

    Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, who is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, had been reported captured on Sunday along with two of his brothers. Another of those siblings, Mohammed Gadhafi, was reported to have escaped Monday, according to the Libyan ambassador to the United States.

    There was no immediate explanation from the National Transitional Council, the rebel leadership that had announced their capture Sunday.

    The younger Gadhafi said news of his arrest had been a trick by the rebels, and that he had been traveling around Tripoli in his armored convoy the entire time. He said that government forces had lured the rebels into a trap in the capital, and that Gadhafi loyalists “have broken the spines of those rats and those gangsters.”

    Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, had said Sunday that he would seek Saif al-Islam Gadhafi’s extradition following his capture. Asked about the warrant for his arrest, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi told reporters, “To hell with the ICC.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/22/l

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    • Willik
      Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:01am

      Anyone remember “Bagdad Bob” with the US tanks rolling in in the background?

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:57pm

    Let me see if I have this right. First they shoot a hole in the sky, then they fake a battle where there is no opposition, then they light a tire or two on fire; all the time claiming to be on the heels of Gadhafi and his sons; then they claim to have captured one of his sons. Now all they have is a bunch of sky with holes in it, burning tire and no believing them because they lied about capturing the son. And to think we (Obama) have spent over a billion dollars on these mentally challenged fools.

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  • miller007
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:53pm

    Bagdad Bob…he is the main fact checker for the New York Times

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:52pm

    “…..it was a trap to destroy the rebels……” & Custer had ‘em exactly where he wanted them!!!!!

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  • Beckett
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:48pm

    I heard that Kadhafi son Mohammed escaped. Did they both escape?

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  • Beckett
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:47pm

    I heard Kadhafi son Mohammed escaped. Did they both escape? Or are they mixing hte two up?

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  • lylejk
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:46pm

    Lets just hope Kadafi did actually stop his nuclear program; if not, a 24 hour boom. What a scary thought; God I hope I’m wrong. :)

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    • Wilkins
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Yeah, he got real tame when he saw what George W did to his old buddy, Saddam Hussein. Had an epiphany you might say,

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:43pm

    Lol this is like a bad episode of Dukes of Hazzard.

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  • darkrage000
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:43pm

    Maybe we can slow the progression of the Muslin World down a bit still

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  • Wilkins
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:42pm

    Gadaffi era not over just yet, then. You can’t believe half the lies you read these days.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:45pm

      Indeed, especially from the cuckold President of ours this morning crowing like a old rooster full of pride at seeing another morning.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:57pm

      I’ve been in the “fog of battle.” After a while it’s hard to tell which way is up – much less who is winning or losing.

      This pains me to say (I mean REALYREALLYREALLYREALLY pains me to say!!) but it seems as though France is about to get the job done. It’s a shame that the next Nobel Peace Prize will go to Mr. Obama.

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:37pm

    Famous quotes by Baghdad Bob.

    “They’re not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion … they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.”

    “They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them!”

    “Faltering forces of infidels cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay besiege to them! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even the American command is under siege.”

    “They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah but they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut.”

    “We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.”

    “On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues”

    “We’re giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn’t accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.”

    “I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.”

    “Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates

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    • Wilkins
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:45pm

      Hey I always liked that guy, the Iraqi Minister of Propoganda, ole what’s-his-name. Gave some welcome moments of comic relief from all the horrific destruction of Saddam’s forces.

      Did they hang him too, or is he writing for Al Jazeera’s SNL?

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    • Wilkins
      Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:48pm

      Oh yeah, I remember now! Good old Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf.

      So many of them named ‘Muhammad’ & variations. Must be a family name or somethin.

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