BANI WALID, Libya: Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam called his father frequently on the telephone and increasingly feared being hit by a mortar bomb as he tried to escape from the town of Bani Walid last week, an officer who had been with him told Reuters.
”He was nervous. He had a Thuraya (satellite phone) and he called his father many times,” said al-Senussi Sharif al-Senussi, a lieutenant in Gaddafi’s army who was part of Saif’s security team in Bani Walid until the city fell on October 17. Senussi spoke to Reuters at a makeshift jail inside Bani Walid’s airport where he has been kept by forces loyal to Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) since his capture alongside other pro-Gaddafi troops last week.
NTC soldiers allowed Reuters to speak to him privately at the jail and did not listen to the conversation. (UNI)
