DTN News - LIBYA UPRISING: Who's Who In Moammar Gadhafi's Family Tree....NSI News Source Info # 1628

DTN News - LIBYA UPRISING: Who's Who In Moammar Gadhafi's Family Tree....NSI News Source Info # 1628

Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources CTV.ca News Staff

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 27, 2011: Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi has eight biological children --seven of them sons -- and two adopted children, most of whom are intimately involved with the running of their father's dictatorship.

Now WikiLeaks, the website devoted to baring secrets, has published assessments by U.S. diplomats in Libya that point to growing anger at the behaviour of some Gadhafi offspring as being part of the excesses that brought fed up and frustrated Libyans boiling into the streets and sparked the blood riots that have been going on for more than a week.

More than 300 people have been killed in the clashes as security forces and the leaked documents say Gadhafi has vowed to fight to the "last drop of blood" to put down the uprising against his 42-year rule of the North African nation.

Pro-Gadhafi gunmen roam the streets and shootings have forced citizens to hide in their homes rather than join the scores of bodies littering the streets of the nation's capital city Tripoli.

The bloody clashes are forcing Libyans to flee the country to escape what they say are ultra-violent methods being used by the security forces to quell the protesting voices.

Among the WikiLeaks documents published is a cable sent a year ago that says: "The family has been in a tailspin recently."

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