Executive Summary: On February 3, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi—the 53-year-old son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi—was assassinated in the western Libyan city of Zintan. He was then buried in Bani Walid, one of the strongholds of his father’s regime, with thousands attending his funeral and flying Gaddafi’s old green flag (The Libya Herald, February 7). […] The post Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: Assassination of Libya’s Symbolic Politician appeared first on Jamestown .