This woman, without a doubt, has made history. Aisha is the young daughter of the legendary Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddaffi, is a political figure on the rise in his country and a key part of the spectacular turn towards the West led by his father.
This young woman has had a healthy upbringing among her six siblings, she has studied what she wanted, although it was beneficial for her parents as well. Aisha went to school regularly like her siblings, then studied law at the al Fatih University in Tripoli and studied a master’s degree in law at the same university, thanks to a joint program with a Parisian university.
It has been speculated over time that she could succeed him in power when he resolves his retirement, apparently through dynastic continuity.
This woman has been the one who has been in charge of the process against the ousted president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, which was carried out in 2005 like no one else. Everything seemed to be going smoothly in the case, when the announcement arrived that the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s favorite daughter would join the team and has caused the desired noise by presenting her as a figure of the Arab world, who will guarantee the former dictator a “fair trial.”
She is a modern and exuberant 27-year-old lawyer, who without modesty wears tight-fitting clothes of exclusive European manufacture and long and well-groomed blonde hair, she has been reproduced ad nauseam in the press and local and international TV networks, in the news with the title The “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”, as the Italian press has dubbed it. Aisha met the dictator personally in 2000, when she traveled to Baghdad at the special request of Colonel Gaddafi to iron out old disagreements between leaders and inaugurate a new stage of diplomatic relations. She has arrived accompanied by a convoy full of medicines to demonstrate the good intentions of the Libyan head of state and also defy the embargo imposed by the UN on Iraq, after the first Gulf War.
Today she is a figure on the rise in Libya, it has even been speculated that she could succeed her father in power and, therefore, become the first woman president of an Arab country in the next few years. Her westernized image and the special harmony she has with her father have made her the best ally of the turn experienced by the 61-year-old colonel in recent times.
Last year she was responsible for transferring US $ 2,700 million to a Swiss bank to compensate the relatives of the 270 fatalities of the Lockerbie attack, the in-flight explosion of an airline plane; has condemned the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington, has agreed to dismantle its arsenal of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and, following the 1999 announcement of the liberalization of the Libyan economy, now offers investors foreigners privatize banking, the oil sector and a good number of public companies.
The life of this lawyer does not differ from that of any member of a powerful and opulent family in the Arab world, she is a woman who, unlike her brothers, does love politics and exhibits a more open attitude to the West; and her father has validated her figure, choosing her as a companion, for example, for his historic trip to South Africa in order to strengthen ties with the pacifist leader Nelson Mandela. This young woman some years ago, has been seen to be responsible for almost a diplomatic altercation with the United Kingdom. While visiting London, the young Libyan woman stood at the traditional Speaker’s Corner to defend the Irish terror group IRA, claiming that its gunmen were true “freedom fighters”.