Khamis Gaddafi (27 May 1983-29 August 2011) was the seventh and youngest son of President Muammar Gaddafi of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya who commanded the Khamis Brigade of the Libyan Army during the Libyan Civil War.
Biography[]
Khamis Gaddafi was born on 27 May 1983 in Tripoli, the seventh son of Libyan head-of-state Muammar Gaddafi. In 1986 he suffered a head wound when the United States bombed Libya in retaliation for their terror attack on a Berlin discotheque earlier that year. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Russia, and after studying abroad in Spain, he returned home in 2011 at the start of the Libyan Civil War. He became a commander of the Libyan Army and commanded the Khamis Brigade, and he became a major target for the forces opposing Gaddafi. A NATO Apache attack helicopter fired on his Toyota Land Cruiser 60 kilometers to the south of Tripoli at Tarhuna on 29 August 2011. This came after many previous and incorrect reports that he had been killed by rebels.