Seif el Islam el Gadaffi

Led by veteran intelligence chief Musa Kusa Revolutionary Committees leader Ahmed Ibrahim and Gadaffi's cousins in the Gadaffadam clan the old guard are resilient even if they are regularly outflanked by Gadaffi's reformist son Mohamed Seif el Islam...

Seif el Islam remains the beacon of reform much favoured by local liberals and Western governments to take over from his father...

Meanwhile some other siblings behave badly notably ‘football star' El Saadi el Gadaffi who remains in Italy having fought with Seif el Islam and others and Hannibal el Gadaffi who left France in haste following a police incident and then triggered a diplomatic spat with Switzerland (ambassadors were recalled) when Swiss police accused Gadaffi Junior and his wife of beating up Moroccan domestic servants...

Huge property development projects and massive infrastructure schemes are intended to transform the Jamahiriya in a process piloted by Seif el Islam el Gadaffi who has brought in players such as the US Monitor Group and Dubai’s Emaar property giant to help to globalise the still state-dominated economy...

Hardliners have allies inside what has become the ruling family with much attention focused on the apparent rift between the Brother Leader’s sons: Seif el Islam and his younger brother El Muatassim who is security advisor to his father...

Thus while Seif el Islam promotes opening up to the world other brothers are playing the security/revolutionary card...

So too did Gadaffi's son Mohamed Seif el Islam who knows that growing Islamist unrest in Benghazi could end his father's dynastic plans...

Central to the latter faction is Gadaffi's eldest son by his second marriage Seif el Islam...

There is even talk of a new civil nuclear programme with Argentina's state-owned company Invap preparing to modernise the old Tajura research reactor (in a project promoted by Seif el Islam)...

The eldest son of the Leader's second marriage Seif el Islam is seen as the most likely successor involved in the medics' case and other sensitive issues even if he frequently fails...

Khartoum was keen on Tripoli until Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi's son Seif el Islam recently gave Minni Arkoi Minnawi's wing of the Sudan Liberation Army substantial relief donations and 57 Landcruisers...

The Leader's senior son Mohamed Seif el Islam claimed that Libya had spent $40 million 'to acquire a nuclear capability'...

Seif el Islam is said to want an American PhD too...

They are driven in part by the leader's urbane but inexperienced son Seif el Islam el Gadaffi now studying at the London School of Economics but with his eyes set on the USA...

Since Libyan ministers and officials are virtually powerless it has become the trend to use channels involving Gadaffi's sons Mohamed Seif el Islam and El Saadi; however this can buy audiences not decisions...

As head of the Gadaffi Foundation and with his own oil company 19 Petroleum (for 1 September 1969 his father's seizure of power) the young Seif el Islam is seen as particularly important and backed by most Libyan reformers...