Qaddafi’s youngest son, Khamis al-Qaddafi, dies after capture.

Qaddafi’s youngest son, Khamis al-Qaddafi, dies after capture.(AA).The seventh and youngest son of the Libyan slain strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi has been declared dead after his capture on Saturday, sources told Al Arabiya. The sources said that Khamis al-Qaddafi, who was a military commander in charge of the Khamis Brigade of the Libyan Army, was severely wounded when arrested. Hiteen Brigade, belonging to the Military Revolutionary Council in the northwestern city of Misrata, arrested Qaddafi’s son, exactly a year after the dictator's death, the sources added. However, Mohammed Maqrif, Head of the Libyan National Congress, told Al Arabiya that Qaddafi’s son was killed during the Bani Walid clashes on Saturday. 
There were conflicting reports about Qaddafi’s son whereabouts, some mulled that he fled to Niger.In the same day, Libyan militias captured Qaddafi’s former spokesman, while leader Mohammed Magarief said some areas of the country still needed to be fully “liberated.” Despite Libya was declared “liberated” a few days after Qaddafi’s capture and its new rulers have led the nation to elections, they have struggled to impose their authority on a country awash with weapons. Moussa Ibrahim, who was the mouthpiece of the Qaddafi regime during last year’s war, was caught in the town of Tarhouna, 70 km (40 miles) south of Tripoli. “Moussa Ibrahim has been arrested by forces belonging to the Libyan government in the town of Tarhouna and he is being transferred to Tripoli to begin interrogation,” a statement from the prime minister’s office said. The government has previously made false claims regarding the capture of Qaddafi loyalists, and produced no photographs on Saturday showing Ibrahim in detention.Read the full story here.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead.(BBC).HT : AstuteBlogger.Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Megrahi, 60, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001. He was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds. He was suffering from cancer and was said to have only months to live. When he returned to the Libyan capital, he received a hero's welcome. Shortly before being freed, Megrahi dropped his second appeal against his conviction. His release sparked the fury of many of the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie disaster.His brother Abdulhakim said on Sunday that Megrahi's health had deteriorated quickly and he died at home in Tripoli. He told the AFP news agency that Megrahi died at 13:00 local time (11:00 GMT). Last month, Megrahi's son said his father had been taken to hospital for blood transfusions. Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, always denied any responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. It remains the deadliest terrorist incident ever to have taken place on British soil. All 259 people aboard the plane, which was travelling from London to New York, were killed, along with 11 others on the ground. Investigators tracing the origins of scraps of clothes wrapped around the bomb followed a trail to a shop in Malta which led them, eventually, to Megrahi. He and another Libyan, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, were indicted by the Scottish and US courts in November 1991.Read the full story here.