Standing on the roof of a truck, machinegun in hand, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi was encouraging supporters to confront the people rising up against his father, Muammer Gaddafi. “You have the weapons to fight the terrorists,” he says in a scene captured on camera. “You will be victorious.”
This was the same 38-year-old, self-styled reformer until recently seen as offering the best chance of a more rational Libya. He was also the man who held the key to the country’s oil wealth and its $65bn Libyan Investment Authority.
But as the Gaddafi regime comes under intensifying pressure, people who have dealt with the LIA now describe an organisation that was as two-faced as Seif Gaddafi.
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