Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi
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Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 July 1970 |
| Died | 26 July 2011 (aged 41) Sirte, Libya |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
| Branch/service | Libyan Army |
| Rank | Colonel |
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.[1] According to the Gaddafi family, Qahsi, who was a colonel in the Libyan Army, was killed by a French airstrike[2] on the Gaddafi compound on 26 July 2011[3] during the Libyan Civil War.[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
