Saturday, August 27, 2011

I'm Not Dead Yet

But she did fool everyone for 25 years (tip to National Review Online):

The adopted daughter of Muammar Gadafy, whom he claimed died as an infant in the 1986 US bombing of his Tripoli compound, appears to be alive and worked as a doctor in the Libyan capital, documents discovered by The Irish Times indicate.

A room belonging to Hana Muammar Gadafy in the section of the Bab al-Azizia compound where the Gadafy family lived contained several documents that appear to indicate she grew up to study medicine in Tripoli and took English classes at the British Council in the Libyan capital.

Many Libyans have long doubted the story of Hana’s death, which Gadafy used to bolster the notion that he was a victim of western military aggression.

Fancy that. Makes you wonder how Khaddafi couldn't work up any decent propaganda over 5 months of NATO bombing when he got so much mileage out of one raid.