Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, on the run in Libya as rebel forces closed in on him, offered a village tribesman one million euros to drive him safely over the border into Niger, it was claimed today.
The so-called playboy son of the deposed leader promised to pay the £860,000-odd sum for safe passage, so that he could one day return to reclaim control of Libya.
But the tribesman, Yussef Saleh al-Hotmani, instead drove Saif to a part of the desert where rebel gunmen were lying in wait.
Mr Hotmani said he had been offered the money - the equivalent of more than 1.6 million Lybian dinar - so Saif and four companions could escape capture and possible execution at the hands of troops loyal to the National Transitional Council.
But he said: 'I was offered millions but all the money they had would not buy a pebble of our sand or one drop of our martyrs' blood.'
It might have also been because Mr Hotmani had feared he would be killed after holding up his end of the bargain.
Mr Hotmani was speaking to reporters in Zintan, where Saif is being held at a secret location before the details of his prosecution are finalised. » | Daily Mail Reporter | Tuesday, November 22, 2011
