Qaddafi's Son: Reform is Coming
The Financial Times reports:
Muammer Gaddafi expects to be the “big father” advisor to any new regime in Libya and the country’s current bloody turmoil amounts to a “positive earthquake” that is paving the way for much-needed reform.
That is the assessment of Saadi Gaddafi, one of the Libyan autocrat’s seven sons, who in a telephone interview with the Financial Times that appeared to betray the Gaddafi clan’s increasing isolation, declared that as much as 85 per cent of the country was now “very calm and very safe”.
“It is now 2pm in Tripoli and it is very calm and quiet – 50 or 60 per cent of the people are working normally,” the former professional footballer said.
Despite his claims, there was clear evidence emerging from Libya on Wednesday that Col Gaddafi’s grip on the country was continuing to loosen with its third city, Misurata, becoming the first major city in the west to fall to his opponents.
Sounding relaxed and not like a member of a ruling family that expected to be deposed in the near future, Mr Gaddafi disclosed that his brother, Seif al-Islam, was working on a new constitution and would make an announcement about it soon.
His father, he said, was preparing to work with any new regime. “My father would stay as the big father who advises,” he said.
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