"A Libyan soap opera." Wikileaks does not mince words to describe the background of the Gaddafi family in recent years, according to the website of Assange, was more committed to covering the scandals and fighting a kind of fratricidal war, to govern the country. In the cable is really everything. By ill-concealed attempts to cover the ostentatious wealth of the clan of the colonel, the infighting among the various offspring, until the actual assets held by rais that would amount to 32 billion dollars.
Opulence which combined with the feeling of total impunity in front of the public can make to the Libyan head. Examples abound. By fervent anti-American, for example, Gaddafi's children have paid a million dollars to the American singer Mariah Carey to play four songs during the New Year's Eve of 2009 on the Caribbean island of St.
Bart. At the time the news was reported by some Western newspapers, but was immediately contradicted by the sons of Gaddafi. The second son Seif al-Islam so indignantly denies the rumor saying that a family that spends staggering sums is the brother Muatassim, national security adviser.
For its part, the brother says, "all'affronto" organizing another party engaging the Caribbean star Beyonce and Usher. American diplomacy is clearly marked as excessive extravagance of the brothers is Gaddafi angered many Libyans who are no longer willing to tolerate these actions "immoral and embarrassing for the country".
And indeed the portrait of the dictator's sons cablegrams that emerges from the stars and stripes is merciless. "It 's like a treat Libya as their personal fiefdom, with struggles to win a place alongside the elderly father." And it is in their partisanship that the United States glimpse, for the first time, the cracks in the monolithic North African dictatorship.
"The sharp rivalry between the sons of the Rais could play an important if not crucial, the ability of the family to maintain power once the Colonel is out of the scene is," says one American source in a confidential telegram to the Department of State. According to observers, one of the main reasons for tension is the role of a dolphin made by Saif al-Islam and the consequent jealousy of his brothers.
In particular, he sees Muatassim badly the liberal aspirations of her brother. "The arrest and intimidation of a number of allies for Saif, on the one hand, and moves designed to restrict the role of Muatassim supply of arms, on the other hand, shows how the level of discord between the brothers is high, "notes one U.S.
diplomat. The children of Colonel also arrive at loggerheads. In 2008, Muatassim asked the chairman of state oil company $ 1.2 billion to build a body of personal militias. All this just to support his personal challenge with his brother, Khamis, commander of special forces of Libya, the Qaddafi's presidential guard.
For the children of the rais the money on the other hand there, as each of them can count on stable "flows of money from state oil company." But it is also the control of the immense wealth of his father to create new causes of tension among the various Brothers. On the other hand, the colonel and his family control a considerable part of the national economy and possess important interests in the oil and gas, telecommunications, infrastructure, hotels, media and retail.
In a dispatch of 2006, American diplomats in Libya's Gaddafi explained that the children receive regular income from the national oil company, whose annual exports amount to tens of billions of dollars. And there's business for them: Saif has access to oil revenues through the company for the energy of his band "One-Nine." Her sister Aisha has interests in energy and construction and in a private clinic in Tripoli, the St James.
Mohammad, the eldest son, check out the General Commission for Post and Telecommunications. The third son Saadi (former player of Perugia) designs a new city in the west of the country as a tourist destination. The dispatches describe what a battle between three-Mohammed, Saadi and Mutassim to control the local production of Coca Cola, a complicated and murky affair that even diplomats and local businessmen can understand.
All the tensions that have not only provided "sufficient material to local observers for a melodramatic soap opera Libyan", but condemning the regime to fall well before the start of the revolution. 
Opulence which combined with the feeling of total impunity in front of the public can make to the Libyan head. Examples abound. By fervent anti-American, for example, Gaddafi's children have paid a million dollars to the American singer Mariah Carey to play four songs during the New Year's Eve of 2009 on the Caribbean island of St.
Bart. At the time the news was reported by some Western newspapers, but was immediately contradicted by the sons of Gaddafi. The second son Seif al-Islam so indignantly denies the rumor saying that a family that spends staggering sums is the brother Muatassim, national security adviser.
For its part, the brother says, "all'affronto" organizing another party engaging the Caribbean star Beyonce and Usher. American diplomacy is clearly marked as excessive extravagance of the brothers is Gaddafi angered many Libyans who are no longer willing to tolerate these actions "immoral and embarrassing for the country".
And indeed the portrait of the dictator's sons cablegrams that emerges from the stars and stripes is merciless. "It 's like a treat Libya as their personal fiefdom, with struggles to win a place alongside the elderly father." And it is in their partisanship that the United States glimpse, for the first time, the cracks in the monolithic North African dictatorship.
"The sharp rivalry between the sons of the Rais could play an important if not crucial, the ability of the family to maintain power once the Colonel is out of the scene is," says one American source in a confidential telegram to the Department of State. According to observers, one of the main reasons for tension is the role of a dolphin made by Saif al-Islam and the consequent jealousy of his brothers.
In particular, he sees Muatassim badly the liberal aspirations of her brother. "The arrest and intimidation of a number of allies for Saif, on the one hand, and moves designed to restrict the role of Muatassim supply of arms, on the other hand, shows how the level of discord between the brothers is high, "notes one U.S.
diplomat. The children of Colonel also arrive at loggerheads. In 2008, Muatassim asked the chairman of state oil company $ 1.2 billion to build a body of personal militias. All this just to support his personal challenge with his brother, Khamis, commander of special forces of Libya, the Qaddafi's presidential guard.
For the children of the rais the money on the other hand there, as each of them can count on stable "flows of money from state oil company." But it is also the control of the immense wealth of his father to create new causes of tension among the various Brothers. On the other hand, the colonel and his family control a considerable part of the national economy and possess important interests in the oil and gas, telecommunications, infrastructure, hotels, media and retail.
In a dispatch of 2006, American diplomats in Libya's Gaddafi explained that the children receive regular income from the national oil company, whose annual exports amount to tens of billions of dollars. And there's business for them: Saif has access to oil revenues through the company for the energy of his band "One-Nine." Her sister Aisha has interests in energy and construction and in a private clinic in Tripoli, the St James.
Mohammad, the eldest son, check out the General Commission for Post and Telecommunications. The third son Saadi (former player of Perugia) designs a new city in the west of the country as a tourist destination. The dispatches describe what a battle between three-Mohammed, Saadi and Mutassim to control the local production of Coca Cola, a complicated and murky affair that even diplomats and local businessmen can understand.
All the tensions that have not only provided "sufficient material to local observers for a melodramatic soap opera Libyan", but condemning the regime to fall well before the start of the revolution.
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