Former Libyan embassy security chief reveals Gaddafi's nephew is in Malta

In an interview with MaltaToday Khaled Alashdar,says that shortly before he abandoned his job at the Libyan embassy in Attard and joined the anti-Gaddafi demonstrators, he received a phone call.

He claims it was Col. Gaddafi’s nephew, who resides in Malta and has a number of men around him for protection.

What was the call about? “He asked me to find as many Libyans as I could and offer them €500 each to demonstrate in favour of Gaddafi.  The list was to be passed on to the Libyan consul at the embassy, for it to be immediately faxed over to Tripoli.”

Khaled says he felt offended by the request, and lashed out at the caller: “Who does he think I am?”

“We are Libyans, and we have our pride and dignity, and there could be no amount of money that could buy us to stupidly support a man who has been terrorising generations of us. It’s over, and there is no turning back. The time has come for all of us to stand up to Gaddafi and make him go, to free Libya.”

Khaled talks about the day he abandoned his job at the embassy.

“When everything started, it was a normal day at work for me. I was already worried for what I was hearing through the news on the uprisings and I remember opening the main embassy door for the ambassador, and told him that the ‘flood’ is coming. He turned back to me and replied, yes indeed,” Khaled explains.

He adds that while the ambassador walked up the stairs to his office and sat behind his desk, a number of people started to gather outside the embassy chanting anti-Gaddafi slogans.

“I was already quite edgy because we were watching the news and we were learning what was happening to our people in Libya. I couldn’t take it, when reports suggested that Libyan fighter jets were ordered to bombard protestors.

“So I looked at the ambassador who was now at his desk, and from the doorway to his office I asked him, what are we going to do about this? We cannot just stand here and pretend that nothing is happening to our people!”

Since that day, Khaled cannot reach his family in Libya.