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Gaddafi's fire-starting daughter proves too hot for the Algerians to handle Date April 3, 2013 - 11:52AM Henry Samuel in Paris and Nabila Ramdani Started fires ... Aisha Gaddafi. Photo: AFP When the daughter of a deposed dictator was forced to flee her home, she had no problem in finding a safe retreat. But Aisha Gaddafi proved too hot to handle for those who welcomed her in - she has been thrown out of her Algerian safe-house for repeatedly setting it on fire. She kept vandalising furniture and attacking guards out of rage over her father's fate. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's 37-year-old daughter has an arrest warrant against her name after she fled Libya when her father was deposed and then killed two years ago. Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Photo: Reuters The western educated lawyer arrived in Algeria with other family members after her husband - an army general - was killed in the bombing raids that destroyed Gaddafi's regime. Advertisement The widowed mother was accorded a presidential residence in the south of the country. Algeria's ambassador to Libya confirmed last month that the dictator's widow and three of his children, including Aisha, had left Algeria "a long time ago", without giving further details. It has now emerged that Algerian authorities lost patience with Miss Gaddafi, a one-time UN goodwill ambassador, after she kept vandalising furniture and attacking guards out of rage over her father's fate. Kicked out of Algeria ... Aisha Gaddafi. Photo: Reuters "She ended up blaming Algeria for many of her problems, and also began starting fires in the house," said a government source in Algiers. "Shelves in the library went up in flames, and she regularly attacked army personnel looking after her safety." The last straw was when the bleach blonde, nicknamed the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa", destroyed a portrait of Abdulaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian president, local newspaper Ennahar reported. For this sign of disrespect she was kicked out of the country, eventually finding asylum in Oman, Britain's Gulf ally. Aisha, Gaddafi's widow Safiya and her sons Muhammad and Hannibal, as well as their children, have all been living there since October 2012. They have been granted sanctuary on "humanitarian grounds" and their expenses are reportedly covered entirely by the Omani government. The Gulf state has apparently turned a blind eye to the controversial pasts of family members wanted back home for squandering the wealth and privilege they enjoyed during Gaddafi's reign. His children were known for their lavish lifestyles while he was in power and some oversaw key sectors in the economy, such as shipping and the state's telecommunications company. Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a girl after evading rebel forces in her home country. She is Gaddafi's only biological daughter, and was an outspoken supporter throughout the civil war. "He is my remedy against pain and my fortress against grief," she said. She also came out in support of Saddam Hussein following the Iraq war. "When you have an occupying army coming from abroad, raping your women and killing your own people, it is only legitimate that you fight them," she said at the time. In 2006 she married her cousin Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, an army colonel with whom she had three children. Qahsi was killed, along with two of their children, in bombing raids. Hannibal Gaddafi was notorious for his abuse of servants. He once faced charges in Geneva for allegedly causing "bodily harm" to hotel staff, and he allegedly beat up his wife in a suite at Claridge's hotel in London. Aisha and Hannibal are both wanted on Interpol arrest warrants issued at the request of Libya's new government. Another of Gaddafi's sons, Saadi, whom Libyan officials claim played a crucial role in organising the brutal crackdown on protesters, fled across Libya's southern border to Niger. Only Saif al-Islam, his father's presumed successor, remained inside Libya. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for allegedly ordering Gaddafi's forces to open fire on unarmed protesters and faces possible execution in Libya. Bitterly opposed to Nato's bombing campaign against Gaddafi's forces, which they said would fuel Islamic terrorism, Algerian officials were initially sympathetic to his family's plight. But the risks to the country of its decision to shelter the Gaddafis had grown. Since Gaddafi's demise, there have been fears that family members will seek to return to Libya to gain power. The Daily Telegraph, London [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
