Saif al-Islam Gaddafi may face death penalty in Libya

Really arrested this time?

This is not the first time reports regarding Saif’s capture have circulated in Libya. As rebel forces drove into the heart of Tripoli on August 22, fighters claimed Saif had been detained. That report, which was confirmed by the International Criminal Court (ICC), would later be proven false, as Saif met with journalists the following day.

And as the siege of Sirte was coming to an end on October 20, it was widely reported that Saif had either been killed or captured. Despite those rumors, it was later determined he had successfully managed to flee the city.

Likewise, Saif’s younger brother Khamis was also subject to numerous reports regarding his death that later proved to be unfounded.  Khamis was first said to have been killed during a bombing raid on his family’s Bab Al Aziziya Compound in Tripoli on March 20.  Al Arabiya confirmed the report, citing unnamed sources.  After that report was disproven, a rebel spokesman then falsely claimed that Khamis died during an August 5 airstrike.  

However, he was really killed when a NATO helicopter destroyed a convoy he was traveling in on August 29, as pro-Gaddafi forces would later confirm.