Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Tyler Hicks of the New York Times found family pictures at the the Qaddafi residence in Tripoli, and they’re amazing. How often do images of a Third World dictator make you irresistibly nostalgic for childhood?

The Qaddafis playing soccer. Baby photos. Colonel Qaddafi as a young lieutenant in the late 1960s. Later, as a father. And finally, a bizarre figure; something of an object of ridicule.

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family
Muammar Gaddafi's daughter, Eisha, his second wife, Safia Farkash, and Seif al-Islam, his son, in an undated photo from a collection of photos taken from Gadhafi's home, in Tripoli, Libya.
Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Muammar Gaddafi and his wife, Safia Farkash.

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Muammar Gaddafi with Hannibal Gaddafi, Safia Farkash, center, and unidentified family members.

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Gaddafi, right, with Leonid Brezhnev, of Russia.

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family


Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Muammar Gaddafi with former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family

Seif al-Islam

Photo Albums of Muammar Qaddafi's Family