00:01Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of Libya's late dictator Muammar Qaddafi,
00:07was killed in his home in Libya late on Tuesday.
00:11His death was confirmed by his attorney and close allies,
00:14who said that four masked gunmen stormed his house in the western town of Zintan and assassinated him.
00:20Qaddafi's political team released a statement saying the assailants disabled CCTV systems in his home
00:26before committing what they called a heinous and cowardly crime.
00:31Saif al-Islam, born in the capital Tripoli in 1972, was the second-born son to Muammar Qaddafi.
00:38He studied for a PhD at the London School of Economics and was seen as the reformist faced his father's regime.
00:46He was captured in 2011 following the ouster of his father,
00:50who had been in power for 40 years during the Arab Spring Uprising.
00:54He was released in 2017 after one of Libya's rival governments granted him amnesty,
01:00residing in Zintan Sins, some 140 kilometers southwest of Tripoli.
01:06He was wanted by the International Criminal Court for charges of crimes against humanity relating to the 2011 uprising.
01:14He was separately sentenced to death in absentia in 2015 by a Libyan court
01:18for his role in inciting chaos and killing protesters.
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