How a Russian Plan to Restore Qaddafi’s Regime Backfired
“Putin’s chef” has been linked to a secret attempt to bring the deposed dictator’s son to power.
On an April day last year, as war raged around Tripoli, two Russian operatives set out from the Libyan capital to meet the man they hoped to install as leader.
Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi, the son and heir apparent of deposed dictator Colonel Moammar Al Qaddafi, had been holed up in an area around the Zintan plateau ever since his father was killed in a 2011 rebellion. A fugitive from the International Criminal Court, he was planning to claim what he saw as his rightful place.