Saif al-Arab Gaddafi

Saif al-Arab Gaddafi (Arabic: سيف العرب القذافي, romanized: Saifu l-ʿArab al-Qaḏḏāfī, lit. 'Sword of the Arabs; of the Gaddafa'; 1982 – 30 April 2011) was the sixth son of the then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. From around 2006 to 2010, Saif al-Arab spent much of his time in Munich. On 30 April 2011, the Libyan government reported that Saif al-Arab and three of his young nieces and nephews were killed by a NATO airstrike, which was later revealed to be French, on his house during the Libyan Civil War. During the beginning of the uprising, Saif al-Arab was put in charge of military forces by his father in order to put down protests in Benghazi. Saif al-Arab was viewed as the most low-profile of Gaddafi's eight children.