Planes carrying Gadhafi's daughter, daughter-in-law denied landing rights
Two Libyan planes carrying members of dictator Muammar Ghadafi's family have been denied landing rights in the region.On Tuesday, a private plane carrying ten passengers was denied landing rights at Beirut International Airport. One of the passengers on the plane was Ghadafi's Lebanese daughter-in-law.
A private Libyan jet that was prevented from landing at Beirut airport was carrying on board the Lebanese wife of one of Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi's sons, Voice of Lebanon radio reported Wednesday.At least that plane apparently never took off. Another plane carrying members of Gadhafi's family - including his daughter Ayesha - was denied landing rights in Malta on Wednesday afternoon despite being in the air and claiming to be low on fuel.
VDL said Hannibal Gadhafi's wife, who is from the Skaff family, and several members of the ruling family were aboard the jet that Lebanese aviation authorities refused to give the permission to land at Rafik Hariri international airport on Tuesday.
Several Libyan regime figures could have been among the plane's passengers, the radio station said.
As Safir daily said Tuesday that the plane was due to take off from Tripoli's airport before midnight but Lebanese authorities asked Libya to unveil the identity of the 10 people on board before allowing the jet to land in Lebanon.
When the Libyans ignored the Lebanese request, authorities in Beirut ordered airport officials to ask the pilot to divert the plane to a nearby country, either Syria or Cyprus.
Updated at 12:10 p.m. ET: Al-Jazeera TV correspondent Cal Perry reports that Gadhafi's only daughter, Ayesha, was aboard the plane that sought to land at Malta. Perry, quoting Maltese government sources, reports from Valletta, the capital, that at one point the Libyan ambassador to Malta was brought in to take part in negotiations with the pilot of the plane, who claimed he was running low on fuel. When Maltese authorities declared it an unscheduled flight that would not be allowed to land, the pilot said it was actually the scheduled flight from the previous day that was delayed. Perry says the plane circled for about 45 minutes before turning back.Hmmm. If I'm Gadhafi (God forbid), I'm saying to myself that the only way to survive is to put down the revolt.
Earlier posting: Al-Jazeera TV quotes a source inside the Maltese government as saying that a Libyan plane carrying the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sought to land on the island nation this evening but was turned back.
The news network quotes the unidentified source as saying there were 14 people aboard the plane that circled for several minutes before behind denied landing rights.
Troops were sent to guard the runaway when the unidentified plane first approached the island.
Al-Jazeera suggests that the main reason for refusing to let the plane land was for security reasons by an increasingly nervous Maltese government and not specifically because it may have carried Gadhafi's daughter.
Unless the 'international community' is willing to send troops in, there's a much worse bloodbath ahead in Libya.
Labels: Ayesha Gadhafi, Hannibal Gadhafi, Lebanon, Libyan regime change, Malta
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:22 PM
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No one is going to send troops to Libya. It has oil to be sure but there's nothing worth fighting and dying for there - unless its sand and the Arabs.
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