Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi

Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi
Personal details
Born(1970-07-15)15 July 1970
Tripoli, Libya
Died26 July 2011(2011-07-26) (aged 41)
Sirte, Libya
Spouse
(m. 2006)
Children4
Military service
Allegiance Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Branch/serviceLibyan Army
RankColonel

Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi (Arabic: أحمد القذافي; 15 July 1970 – 26 July 2011) was the cousin of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. On 16 April 2006, he married Gaddafi's daughter Ayesha. According to the Gaddafi family, Qahsi, who was a colonel in the Libyan Army, was killed in the 26 July 2011 bombing of the Gaddafi compound during the Libyan Civil War. The couple had three children before the conflict started, one of whom was killed along with one of Ayesha's brothers in a NATO airstrike and another killed along with her husband in the bombing of Gaddafi's compound. Their fourth child, a girl, was born in Algeria as Ayesha fled there with her brothers Hannibal and Muhammad after the Battle of Tripoli in 2011.