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Saif Gaddafi well and alive, seen in person at Rixos hotel in Tripoli

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Gaddafi's son, Saif Image by boellstiftung via Flickr

One of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif, was seen by the CCN correspondent Matthew Chance in person at Rixos Hotel, despite rebel claims that he had been captured on Sunday, August 20, 2011. And he has the picture to prove it

MSNBC reports about Seif’s appearance at Rixos hotel:

With a full beard and wearing an olive-green T-shirt and camouflage trousers, Seif al-Islam turned up early Tuesday morning at the Rixos hotel, where about 30 foreign journalists are staying in Tripoli under the close watch of regime minders.

“We are here. This is our country. This is our people, and we live here, and we die here,” he told AP Television News. “And we are going to win, because the people are with us. That’s why were are going to win. Look at them — look at them, in the streets, everywhere!”

Riding in a white limousine amid a convoy of armored SUVs, he took reporters on a drive through parts of the city, saying, “We are going to hit the hottest spots in Tripoli.”

House = Rixos hotel

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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