WikiLeaks: Gadaffi family riddled by greed, jealousy

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Greed, jealousy and ambition poisoned relations inside Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi's family and often destroyed the careers of officials who got in the way, according to US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. The five Gadaffi children documented in the diplomatic assessments used threats and occasional violence to try to ensure their business and political interests won out in the major oil exporter.

"While internecine strife is nothing new for the famously fractious ... family, the recent escalation of tension comes during a particularly momentous period," said a diplomatic report dated March 2009, shortly before Libya celebrated the 40th anniversary of a revolution which brought Gadaffi to power.

The family is now operating as a tight unit against unrest which threatens to end Gadaffi's rule, but the US reports document a family split between Gadaffi's second eldest son and supposed heir Saif al-Islam and four of his siblings.

It lists several officials who were forced to resign, sent abroad or sacked for refusing the children's requests, failing to keep them in order or simply for becoming too close to one or other of the internecine factions.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-02-24-wikileaks-gadaffi-family-riddled-by-greed-jealousy

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Moammar Gadaffi's regime will end when the fractures in his family

become too hard to mend, when they fail to act as one.