"The world will know, we are not criminals" – Ayesha Gaddafi

by Fayha Asalah from Tunisia
November 20, 2011

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Weeks after the barbaric murder of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, his daughter Aysha Gaddafi once again in an exclusive interview said, "Gaddafi family has become the victim of continuous intimidation and false propagated of the NTC [National Transition Council] hoodlums and foreign mercenaries."

Ayesha was expressing her anger over the NTC leadership and those "derailed" civilians in Libya, who she thinks, are "pushing the fate of the country towards severe consequence".

Ayesha Gaddafi believes Libya has become the newest "play-ground" of the "anti-Arab Western forces, which is practically eyeing into Libya's huge natural resources."

"My country is now under the grips of international looters, who are collaborated by a very small section of the locals, who have no love for Libya."

Expressing her grave concern at the arrest of her brother Saif al-Gaddafi, Ayesha said, "I heard various forms of torture is continuing on him since he was captured by the NTC hoodlums. They are also going to finally kill him similarly as my father. This is a gross violation of human rights, currently taking place in Libya. There is no rule of law and NTC members are engaged in numerous forms of crime, including robbery, looting and rapes."

Ayesha Gaddafi said, "Since NTC hoodlums took control of my country, thousands of Libyan and African girls and women have been raped by these criminals. In some cases, these NTC goons are killing the rape victims after gang rape and severe physical torture."

Referring to recent fleeing of her brother Saadi al-Gaddafi and the statement of his bodyguard, Gary Peters, who is the president of Can/Aus Security & Investigations International Inc, Ayesha Gaddafi said, "There are excellent people everywhere in the world, and Mr. Gary is surely one of them."

In an exclusive interview to The National Post, Gary Peters, who helped Ayesha al-Gaddafi in fleeing to Algeria as well as helped his "boss" Saadi al-Gaddafi in fleeing to Niger, said Saadi is not a criminal and is a gentleman.

Saadi intended to flee to a property that had been purchased in Mexico, but that fell through. He also wanted to come to Canada, but Mr. Peters said that also did not work out, so he ended up in Niger.

"He loves Canada, that's why he keeps coming back here, every year," Mr. Peters said.

"He's got investments here, he's got property here. He wants to [move to Canada], but I was warned by RCMP that if he comes here they'll arrest him straight away, I don't know why."

Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Saadi on Sept. 29 for allegedly "misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation" when he was head of the Libyan soccer team. He is also subject to a UN travel ban and assets freeze for being "the commander of military units allegedly involved in repression of demonstrations by civilians during Libya's uprising."

But Mr. Peters denied that.

"If he was a mass murderer then obviously I wouldn't work for him," he said. "The man's a gentleman, non-violent. They said that he's the leader of a military unit. Bulls—, he's not."

He said while Col. Gaddafi, whom he said he had met, was "very intimidating" and "very hostile," Saadi was a "very nice man, very educated, very nice guy. However don't piss them off, very revengeful people."

Peters was shot and severely wounded by the members of the NTC.

He said he supported neither the Gaddafi regime nor the National Transitional Council, but believed Canada had backed the wrong side in the conflict. He accused the rebels of committing atrocities and said NATO had bombed civilian homes.

"I'm not political. This is my boss, he's also a client, also a friend," Mr. Peters said.

"It's difficult but you have your own principles too, right? My morals say that I've got to stand by him."

He said he was returning to Niger this weekend.

But he said he had paid a price for his loyalty to the boss. The word "dog" was scratched on his car, he said. He believes he is being followed.

"All my clients I had here, they've all gone. They all boycotted, which is fine."

Asked why, he said, "because of who I work for, and that I'm continuing to work for him. People talk."

Saadi said in a statement from his lawyer this week he was "shocked and outraged by the vicious brutality which accompanied the murders of his father and brother."

Mr. Peters said the fight for Libya was not over.

"People say, 'Oh, it's going to settle down, everyone's got to pull out.' Don't believe it's going to settle down because there are still three brothers there that are very, very angry. And three brothers that have a lot of money.

"And they've still got that money. We just purchased, brand-new, three Land Rovers, bullet-proof. We paid cash for it. That means there's money around."

Commenting on what is next for their family, Ayesha Gaddafi said, "The world knows how my father was brutally murdered by the NTC criminals. We shall not rest, until our motherland is liberated from the grips of the NTC hoodlums and foreign mercenaries."

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