Who is who: Muhammad al-Gaddafi family
Muhammad al-Gaddafi
Age: 68. In power 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been the longest-serving leader in both Africa and the Arab world since he toppled King Idris I in a bloodless coup at the age of 27. Born in the desert near Sirte in 1942, he is known for his flamboyant dress-sense and gun-toting female bodyguards. His political philosophy, laid out in his Green Book, was a homemade alternative to both socialism and capitalism, combined with aspects of Islam. In 1977 he invented a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state of the masses", in which power is meant to be held by thousands of "peoples' committees". In reality Gadaffi has retained absolute, authoritarian control.
First wife
Gaddafi's first wife was a schoolteacher. The couple are reported not to have met before they married. They had one son, Muhammad, but separated after six months.
Safia al-Gaddafi
Gaddafi's second wife and mother of seven of his biological
children. The couple also adopted a son and daughter, Milad and Hanna.
Hanna was killed in the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986 at the age
of four.
Muhammad al-Gaddafi
Born to Gaddafi's first wife. Muhammad al-Gaddafi heads the Libyan Olympic committee, which has its headquarters in Tripoli. He is also the Chairman of the General Post and Telecom Company which owns and operates cell phone and satellite communications.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Age: 38.
Fluent English speaker with a PhD from the London School of Economics,
he is widely seen as belonging to a camp that aims to open Libya's
economy.
Runs the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, which
has been involved in negotiating freedom for hostages taken by Islamic
militants, especially in the Philippines.
In 2006 he left Libya after criticising his father's regime, but later
returned to the country.
He is regarded as the modern face of Libya - but in 2008 declared he had
no interest in "inheriting" his father's reign.
Went on Libyan TV at the height of the protests to warn of civil war.
Saadi Gaddafi
Age: 36. A son of Gaddafi's second wife, he is married to the daughter of a military commander. A former footballer who had a very brief career in Italy's Serie A, he now runs the Libyan Football Federation after being national team captain. Since retiring from football, he has become involved in the film industry, apparently investing $100m in a film fund whose first production was set to be a remake of a German thriller called The Experiment.
Mutassim Gaddafi
Age: Unknown. A lieutenant colonel in the Libyan army, he fled to Egypt after allegedly masterminding a coup attempt against his father, but was later forgiven and allowed to return. He is now National Security Advisor and heads his own unit in the army.
Hannibal Gaddafi
Used to work for the General National Maritime Transport Company, a company that specialises in Libyan oil exports. He has been involved in a number of violent incidents. In 2005 he was accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend in Paris. In 2008 he was arrested in a Geneva hotel after two of his servants accused him of assault and was later freed on bail. Since then the Libyan government has boycotted Swiss goods, ordered Swiss companies to leave Libya and recalled diplomats from Bern. Hannibal has described Switzerland as a "world mafia" which should be split up.
Saif al-Arab Gaddafi
Very little is known about Saif al-Arab. In 2008 his car was impounded by German police because of a noisy exhaust, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. He was said to be a student in Munich at the time.
Khamis Gadaffi
Khamis is a police officer and is said to have been in charge of the suppression of protests in Benghazi.
Ayesha al-Gaddafi
Age: 34. A lawyer, who joined the defence team of executed former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. She married a cousin of her father in 2006.
Milad Abuztaia Al-Gaddafi
Adopted son and nephew, Milad is credited with saving Gaddafi's life during the 1986 US bombing of the Gaddafi compound.
