Hanna Gaddafi Not Dead - Rebels Solve Mystery
In 1986 Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi claimed that his adopted infant daughter, Hanna Gaddafi, had died. However, new details are surfacing about Hanna Gaddafi and they are dispelling the former leader’s claims.
The death of Hanna has always been a controversial and disputed mystery. Gaddafi claimed that Hanna was killed as an infant during airstrikes that occurred in April of 1986 on the Bab al-Azizia compound where Gaddafi and his family lived.
The attacks were carried out by the United States under the Regan presidency and were a retaliatory attack for a West Berlin nightclub bombing carried out by Libyan agents. Two Americans died in the bombing.
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Gaddafi claimed that Hanna died, held a very public funeral for his deceased adopted daughter, and even set up a shrine in his compound for the infant girl. Around the shrine he placed replicas of American missiles and baby furniture behind glass cases.
Even twenty years after Hanna “died,” Gaddafi organized a “Hanna Festival of Freedom and Peace,” in her honor.
However, in a surprising turn of events, rebels overran the Gaddafi compound last week and came across some pictures and documents of an adult Hanna.
The documents read that Hanna studied medicine in Tripoli and took English classes at the British Council of Tripoli.
A local Tripoli hospital also came out to say that Hanna Gaddafi had indeed survived infanthood and used to work for them as a surgeon.
Even former regime insiders have also come out to admit that Hanna Gaddafi’s death was a decades-long hoax used by Gaddafi to embed anti-Western perceptions into the Libyan psyche.
However, like her father, Hanna Gaddafi has not been discovered since Gaddafi’s regime began to collapse under the pressure of Libyan rebels.
Although her mother Safia, older sister Aisha, and two brothers Mohammed and Hannibal were reported to have escaped to Algeria on Monday, news about Hanna’s whereabouts did not emerge.
With the news of Gaddafi's family having fled Libya, rebel leaders came out to argue that they perceive the sheltering of Gaddafi family members as an “act of aggression.”
A spokesperson for the rebel-led National Transition Council warned Algeria and other Gaddafi allies against harboring Gaddafi family members saying, “We are warning anybody not to shelter Gaddafi and his sons. We are going after them in any place to find them and arrest them.”
