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Khamis Gaddafi 27 May — 29 August was the seventh and youngest son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , and the military commander in charge of the Khamis Brigade of the Libyan Army. He was part of his father's inner circle. At age three, Khamis Gaddafi was injured in the 15 April U. He graduated from the military academy in Tripoli , receiving a bachelor's degree in military arts and science, further graduating from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

Khamis, who was said to be uninterested in politics, rose in prominence in the s due to the exile of his older brother Mutassim , who was sent to Egypt in after being accused by senior officials of plotting to seize power from his father.

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By most accounts, Khamis was competent, loyal to his father, and maintained good relations with his siblings. After hurrying back to Libya to aid his father in the civil war, Khamis commanded the assault on Zawiya , leading the Khamis Brigade , a special forces brigade of the Libyan Armed Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. He also assisted in suppressing anti-regime demonstrations in and around the capital Tripoli in late February-early March.

His forces also took part in the Battle of Misrata. In June , he was reported to be commanding pro-Gaddafi forces in Zliten by a soldier captured from his brigade who also reported that Khamis had told his troops to "take Misrata or I will kill you myself.

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If you don't take Misrata, we are finished. On 20 March , it was reported by the anti-Gaddafi Al Manara Media that Khamis had died from injuries sustained when pilot Muhammad Mokhtar Osman allegedly crashed his plane into Bab al-Azizia a week earlier. This was not confirmed by any independent news source. The crashing of the plane itself had also not been previously reported or confirmed by any independent media except Al Manara and the Algerian Shuruk newspaper, which is closely connected to Al Manara, and with it there is a possibility of the reports being part of the propaganda operations by the opposition.

The pro-Gaddafi Libyan government subsequently denied that Khamis was killed on 21 March. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she was aware of reports that one of Gaddafi's sons had been killed in non-coalition air strikes, after hearing them from "many different sources", but that the "evidence is not sufficient" for her to confirm this.

On 29 March , the Libyan government showed what it said was live footage of Khamis greeting supporters in Tripoli , in an attempt to refute the claims, [ 19 ] though it had used false live images before and these images were not verified.