From Jomana Karadsheh, CNN
February 12, 2012 -- Updated 2142 GMT (0542 HKT)
Saadi Kadhafi speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, in January 2010.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- One of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's surviving sons has had his phone cut off and been placed under house arrest in Niger after warning of a revolt against Libya's new government, authorities in Tripoli said Sunday.
Saadi Gadhafi has been in Niger since September, following the collapse of his father's 42-year rule. He had been granted asylum, but Libyan authorities renewed demands for his arrest after he told the satellite news network Al Arabiya that "a new popular uprising" was brewing in his home country.
Nigerien officials would not comment on the move. But Libya's National Transitional Council, which replaced the Gadhafi regime, said Saadi Gadhafi's comments "were considered a violation of the terms of his residency granted by Niger."
"Saadi used the asylum he was granted in Niger on humanitarian basis to carry out acts of aggression against the Libyan people and their glorious revolution," NTC spokesman Mohammed Nasr al-Hraizi said in a government statement. Libya's new government complained to Niger about Saadi Gadhafi's interview, demanding Niger "take stringent measures, including his extradition to Libya."
The move came as Libya prepares to mark the anniversary of the February 17 revolt that toppled the elder Gadhafi six months later. Few details have been announced, but commemorations are expected in Tripoli; in Benghazi, where the revolution began; and in Misrata, one of its major battlegrounds.
Security has been tightened in Tripoli, with new checkpoints going up around the city in recent days. Gadhafi loyalists have been circulating text messages and YouTube videos talking about a new for uprising around the anniversary date. Gen. Youssef Mangoush, the new chief of staff of the Libyan argmed forces, said there has been no direct threat regarding the anniversary, but said the government would take all steps necessary to head off any new revolt.
The transitional government in Tripoli is still working to build a new national army and police force. The NTC has set elections for a new National Assembly in June. But several revolutionary militias and regional factions have held onto their weapons and fought occasional clashes with each other, and ordinary Libyans say their biggest concern is security.
Saadi Gadhafi was a prominent businessman and onetime head of Libya's national football league before his father's government fell to a six-month revolt in late August. The new Libyan government has accused him of misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation, and the multinational police agency Interpol issued a "red notice" calling for his arrest in September.
In his interview with Al Arabiya, he said he had been in touch with Libyans "on a daily basis" and said several groups were ready to take up arms against the new government.
"I call everyone to be prepared for this uprising, and be ready for the zero hour," he said. "Because when it happens, it will a real uprising."
He added that he could return to Libya and "stop those acts of revenge," and he urged armed factions in Libya "to meet and discuss and achieve real peace this time."
The elder Gadhafi was killed by NTC fighters in October, along with his son Mutassim. Another son, Khamis, was reported killed in battle as the regime imploded in August.
Gadhafi's second-eldest son and closest adviser, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, is now awaiting trial in Libya. The elder Gadhafi's wife, three other children and several grandchildren have fled to neighboring Algeria.
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TrippinU
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Good morning, Libya Green Libya ,continuing our Nobel Resistance to the day of Liberation. IOW's:M F Rat's gonna get theirs......thank you CNN, Saadi Gadhafi
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dearjym
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'glorious' revolution? hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha- it's 1984 all over again.
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tinwatchman
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dearjym - Or British history.
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mangojay
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Apparently this guy isn't adapting very well to his new situation. Saadi.... laws apply to you too now and believe it or not you're not untouchable either.
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BalisticalX
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Obama killed bin Laden, toppled Gadhafi's control, pulled America out of recession when the rest of the World continued into it... Made America billions through the auto loans, fought to make sure every American has a RIGHT to Healthcare (like the rest of the Developed World), pushes to educate with out going broke, like the rest of the World.
Now.... if he could come get rid of all the filthy brain-dead repuklicans... the voting demographics would show more average intelligence.
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Scallywag151 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
WOW dude…puff puff pass…and don’t hot box it!
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BalisticalX 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
I bet your Highly religious & republican...
There's a reason I know that....here's a hint: It has to do with your intelligence ...
The studies are out there to support that statement.
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WildFlame 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
You make it sound as if he did something when he really didn't.
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BalisticalX 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
And then... Had Breakfast
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BalisticalX 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
got us out of two POINTLESS wars...
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TypeBLiberal 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Obama should go back to Niger.
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BalisticalX 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
nice another extremist racist fox bot trying to change opinion elsewhere.
It has been costing fox members that are educated, to be replaced by inbred yokels like this clown.
bet he thinks Obama's m00slim & has not picked this Country up, at the same time being a constitutional scholar & a part time MD who consulted on the health bill.
Repubs are more desperate than ever....I love it... they know who will win hahaha
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slupdawg69 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Shut your cake hole
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chucka001 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Moammar Al-Gadafi absolutely put Lybia on the Map,He rebuild Lybia,And Lybian People should give him Credit for that,even thu he was a dictator but this what an arabs need to be
Govern,And most if not All what it call National Transitional Council use to be working with Gadafi, the predident of National. T.C,him self was one of the cabenit menister,Today he is
talking big like he never knew X Pres,AlGadafi,Lybia will never be the same ,As well Egypt,There will be no Democracy in arab Countries ever.America and the West are wasting time for nothing.
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RatKiller2 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
This is true. We are killing the GOOD dictators and helping the BAD dictators.
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RatKiller2 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Let him go.....let him form a new uprising against the new Libyan government that has been formed and led by the al Qaeda! The al Qaeda sucks and should be eliminated totally from the earth!
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Bureau 24 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
This so called Democratic government under the NTC in LIbya says for Saadi Gadhafi to give his opinion in another country to a TV crew is some how warranting them to arrest him. He can't say what the rest of the world sees loud and clear that the rebels were nothing but a bunch of western backed thugs that will destroy the Libyan prosperity for the next 20 years.
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gliese42 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Button6712@ Libyan prisons are now full of children who supported Gadhafi and torture is still being used on prisoners to extract information. Al Qaeda members and paramilitary groups runs the country and all thanks to NATO
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Button6712 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Last post. Look many people are in such dire need right now in Libya, their monthly checks are gone, some have kids in universities around the globe that no longer receive tuition and living payments, young men roam the streets with guns, water is not on in some places, its a mess. Months later and its still a mess. of course they are unhappy. There was peace and a level of life that they were used to. you didn't pay for most things you were paid. and now...no one knows what is going on. The internet was on, now its off again. all kinds of reasons to look elsewhere. But yes, less is more sometimes and this was one of them. Leave the kids alone.
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TexasStud 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
It is in the world's best interest to terminate him.
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MoogleStiltzkin 4 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Saadi would have better served his interest by keeping his mouth shut. After his comment he may be liable for war crimes o.O; when before he was safe until now.
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MoogleStiltzkin 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
true, which i doubt would happen. but there will always be some die hard ghadaffi loyalists who are stupid enuff to take saadi's comments seriously. so if anything happens he is gonna take the heat for it. The ghadaffis have obviously lost touch with reality :X they still keep on dreaming they are still relevant even after libyans discovered the life of luxury and hypocrisy they were enjoying while their people lived in poverty
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Button6712 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
they had the highest standard of living in Africa - they were not in poverty by any means. I think they are now though. you think the NTC is going to share the wealth with them?
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Button6712 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
only if there is a war.
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Button6712 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
don't you Virginia guys ever sleep?
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