Libya Party leader

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

سيف الإسلام القذافي

Party leader Independent Verified

Second son of Muammar Gaddafi, formerly the regime's presumed political successor; presidential candidate in the 2021 Libyan election that was delayed indefinitely.

Country: Libya
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Party leader

Position

1 source document on file for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

There will be rivers of blood. The Libyan people will not be defeated. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet.

سوف تجري أنهار من الدماء، والشعب الليبي لن يهزم، وسنقاتل حتى آخر رجل وحتى آخر امرأة وحتى آخر رصاصة.

2011 Televised address on the sixth day of the Libyan uprising — a speech that explicitly threatened civil war within hours of mass defections in Benghazi. en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Speech English 2011-02-20

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (Muammar Gaddafi's son & one-time heir; d. Feb 2026) — his 20 Feb 2011 televised address during the uprising (per Al-Monitor): warning that toppling the regime would fragment Libya — "All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country… everyone will want to be president, or emir." The Gaddafi-restorationist / strong-central-authority pole.

All of Libya will be destroyed. We will need 40 years to reach an agreement on how to run the country, because today, everyone will want to be president, or emir, and everybody will want to run the country.

39 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Saif al-Islam Gaddafi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saif-gaddafi

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Saif al-Islam Gaddafi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saif-gaddafi.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-saif-gaddafi,
  title     = {{Saif al-Islam Gaddafi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saif-gaddafi},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.