Commander detonated an arrest operation Saif al-Islam Gaddafi In 2011, details of the arrest of the son of the late Libyan leader, Al-Ajmi Al-Atiri said that Saif asked him at the time to shoot him in the head.
Colonel Al-Ajmi Al-Atiri, who was leading the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Brigade, explained: “On the night of November 18 to 19, 2011, we set up an ambush in Wadi Al-Raml between Wadi Al-Shati and Wadi Al-Hayat, with a group of Zintan fighters I was leading, and one from the Berghan tribe, originally from the south.”
Two cars in the desert
He added during an interview with the French magazine “John Afrique”: “Before dawn, around 2 am, two armored SUVs appeared between the dunes. They tried to resist and escape. There were some gunfights before they were stopped. There was not much in them. “Two men in the first car, four in the second.”
As for the timing of the arrest of Saif al-Islam, he said: “In the dark night, we could not see much. I was the first to approach their convoy and interrogated one of them, who ended up telling me, pointing to him, ‘He is Saif al-Islam.. This was the first time in My life in which I see him personally. His head was covered in sand up to his eyebrows, and he was wearing a white galabiya with a brown scarf around his neck. I was calm and I was happy because at that moment I thought that arresting Gaddafi’s second son would end the war.”
3 of his fingers were cut off
But when he saw that he was injured with his hand wrapped in bandages, “I immediately wanted to treat him, but we didn’t have a first-aid kit… I cut three of his fingers, and he also had injuries to his stomach and sides.”
Al-Ajmi Al-Atiri said that Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi told him that he had miraculously survived the NATO bombing that wounded and killed twenty of his bodyguards a month ago. He also assured his captors that he was not a fugitive but that he planned to have surgery in Niger, then return safely to Libya.
He didn’t offer us money
Regarding media allegations that Gaddafi’s son offered them money in exchange for his release, the leader of the arrest operation of Saif al-Islam confirmed that this was not entirely true, but that “Saif al-Islam did not discuss the money with us at all. What he asked of me was to shoot him in the head. I told him Such an order goes against our principles and he asked to be moved to Zintan, my hometown.”
He continued, “The day after Saif al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi arrived in Zintan, he underwent surgery for more than four hours, and also needed daily medical monitoring for about two months.” From the early days of his captivity, he spoke to us about politics, and swore to us that he never paid foreign mercenaries to help his father.