The Gaddafi family tree
A look at the roles and relationships of the ousted Libyan leader's closest family, amid the ongoing battle for control of the country.
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Fatiha
Whereabouts: Unknown
Official post: None
Gaddafi's first wife was a schoolteacher. The couple are reported not to have met before they married. They had one son, Muhammad, but separated after six months. Little else is known about her.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Unknown
Official post: Leader
There has been no sign of Col Gaddafi, since he appeared on national radio calling for all Libyans to fight the rebels as they approached Tripoli. He is believed to be somewhere in the country's southern deserts. Having seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1969, he was the longest-serving leader in Africa and in the Arab world. He claimed the country was run by "people's committees". In reality, Gadaffi retained authoritarian control until the popular uprising that began in April.
Safia al-Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Algeria
Official post: None
Safia fled to Algeria following the rebels capture of Tripoli. She is Gaddafi's second wife and mother of seven of his children. The couple also adopted a son and daughter, Milad and Hanna. Following the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986, Col Gaddafi announced that Hanna, then aged four, had been killed in the attack. However, there have since been reports suggesting that she may still be alive.
Muhammad al-Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Algeria
Official post: Head of Libyan Olympic committee
Muhammad fled to Algeria shortly after the rebels took Tripoli. Born to Gaddafi's first wife, Muhammad is Gaddafi's eldest son. As well as running the Olympic committee, he was also the chairman of the General Post and Telecom Company which controlled Libya's mobile phone and satellite communications networks.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Unknown
Official post: Head of Gaddafi family's charity
Despite declaring in 2008 that he had no interest in "inheriting" power from his father, Saif al-Islam was still seen as his father's most likely successor. He has not been seen since making public appearances during the battle for Tripoli, calling for continued resistance against the rebels. A fluent English speaker, he was widely seen as the modern face of Libya. In 2006 he left the country after criticising his father's regime, only to return later.
Saadi Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Niger
Official post: President of the Libyan Football Federation
A son of Gaddafi's second wife, Saadi is married to the daughter of a military commander. He has been given refuge in neighbouring Niger. A former footballer who had a very brief career in Italy's Serie A, he ran the Libyan Football Federation after being national team captain. After retiring from football, he became involved in the film industry, apparently investing $100m in a film fund.
Mutassim Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Unconfirmed
Official post: National security advisor
There are conflicting reports about Mutassim's whereabouts. Some say he was seized in his family's hometown of Sirte, while others dispute the claims. As national security advisor and a lieutenant colonel in the Libyan army, Mutassim was a member of his father's inner circle. He lived in Egypt for several years, after allegedly masterminding a coup attempt against his father, until he was forgiven and allowed to return.
Hannibal Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Algeria
Official post: Head of state shipping company
Hannibal fled to Algeria shortly after the rebels took control of Tripoli. He worked for Libya's General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specialises in oil exports. He has reportedly been involved in a number of violent incidents. Accused of beating a girlfriend in Paris in 2005 and arrested in 2008 in Geneva for assaulting two of his servants. Later freed on bail, the Libyan government ordered a boycott of Swiss goods, expelled Swiss companies and recalled its diplomats.
Saif al-Arab Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Dead
Official post: Army officer
The Libyan government reported Saif al-Arab as killed in a Nato air strike on the Gaddafi compound on 30 April 2011, along with three of the Libyan leader's grandchildren. Very little is known about Saif al-Arab, who was one of Gaddafi youngest sons. In 2008 his Ferrari was impounded by German police because of a noisy exhaust, according to a report in the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper. He was said to be a student in Munich at the time.
Khamis Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Unknown
Official post: Commander of Libya's 32nd Brigade
Khamis Gaddafi has not been seen since the rebels overran the barracks of his 32nd Brigade just outside Tripoli. He operated his own special forces unit having received military training in Russia and is said to have been in charge of the suppression of protests in Benghazi. After taking the Khamis Brigade's base, Libyan rebel forces found evidence of a recent massacre of more than 50 people there.
Ayesha al-Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Algeria
Official post: None
Aisha fled to Algeria shortly after the rebels took control of Tripoli. A lawyer, who joined the defence team of executed former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. She married a cousin of her father in 2006.
Milad Abuztaia Al-Gaddafi
Whereabouts: Unknown
Official post: Unknown
Adopted son and nephew, Milad is credited with saving Gaddafi's life during the 1986 US bombing of the Gaddafi compound.
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