Son of Muammar el-Qaddafi Sentenced to Death in Libya

See what happens to you and your family if you upset your daddy in Washington?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/world/africa/seif-al-islam-el-qaddafi-death-sentence-libya.html

CAIRO — A court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday sentenced Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, a son of the former dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to death in an act of retribution that had been the urgent demand of the millions of Libyans who rose up against the family’s rule four years ago.

The sentence, however, was made moot by the civil strife that has since engulfed the country. Mr. Qaddafi was sentenced in absentia because he is being held captive by a militia in the northwestern city of Zintan, and the group holding him does not recognize the authority of the Tripoli government or its courts. Most Libyans are now so preoccupied with the country’s internal conflicts that they long ago stopped paying attention to the trial or to the Qaddafis…