Last night NBC reported that Libyan rebels claimed to have captured Seif al-Islam Qaddafi had been captured. I haven't seen any confirmation of this yet, but will keep checking the wires throughout the day.
A sad irony of the Arab Spring is that many of the heir apparents of some autocrats, i.e. Gamal Mubarak and Seif al-Islam, were genuine reformists who advocated the modernization of their countries' economies and increased freedoms for their populations. But when the revolution came, at least in Seif al-Islam's case -- to the best of my knowledge Gamal hasn't been implicated in any crimes -- family loyalty trumped his other principles and he may have been an accomplice to the massacre of civilian demonstrators.
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