Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Tripoli, Libya | 15 July 1970
Died | 26 July 2011 Sirte, Libya | (aged 41)
Spouse | |
Children | 4 |
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Branch/service | Libyan Army |
Rank | Colonel |
Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi (Arabic: أحمد القذافي; 15 July 1970 – 26 July 2011) was the grandson of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's uncle. On 16 April 2006, he married Gaddafi's daughter Ayesha.[1] According to the Gaddafi family, Qahsi, who was a colonel in the Libyan Army, was killed in the 26 July 2011[2] bombing of the Gaddafi compound during the Libyan Civil War.[3][4] The couple had three children before the conflict started, one of whom was killed along with one of Ayesha's brothers in a NATO airstrike and another killed along with her husband in the bombing of Gaddafi's compound.[5] Their fourth child, a girl, was born in Algeria as Ayesha fled there with her brothers Hannibal and Muhammad after the Battle of Tripoli in 2011.[6]