In this Saturday, November 19, 2011, file photo, Saif Al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, Libya. (AP)
Aisha Gaddafi, a 37-year-old lawyer and former UN goodwill ambassador, joined her mother, Safia Farkash, and her brothers Hannibal and Mohammed, who are also reported to have recently relocated to Oman and received political asylum.
The presence of Gaddafi’s only daughter in Oman was confirmed by Libya’s foreign minister, Mohammed Abdulaziz, who told Asharq Al-Awsat that Libya did not bear Oman any ill-will for sheltering the Gaddafi family.
He said: “All we care about is that the [Gaddafi] family is not politically active and that it is distanced from any activity detrimental to the [Libyan] revolution.”
Ms. Gaddafi was reportedly thrown out of Algeria after fits of rage led her to start fires in her safe house and attack guards at the presidential palace where she was residing.
She is also alleged to have destroyed a portrait of Algerian
President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, which was the act that led to her deportation, according to the Algerian newspaper Ennahar.
A source in the Algerian government told London’s Daily Telegraph that Ms. Gaddafi has come to blame the government of Algeria for many of her problems.
She gave birth to her third child, Safia, after fleeing to Algeria with her mother and brothers during the uprising and aerial bombing campaign that deposed her father. Her husband, an army colonel, and their other two children were killed during bomb raids.
Of her remaining siblings outside of Oman, one brother, Saadi, fled to Niger, while the other, Saif Al-Islam, is imprisoned in Libya, awaiting trial.
Abdulaziz told Asharq Al-Awsat that Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi would not be extradited to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is also seeking him for his role in his father’s regime.
He said: “We, as a judicial system, are able to provide fair trials. The trials will be open to international observers. It is possible that we will seek technical assistance from the ICC if we need any help in relation to these trials, and this position will not change today or tomorrow.”