— From her father’s compound, struck by U.S. bombs exactly 25 years ago, Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter sent a defiant message early Friday: Libya was not defeated by airstrikes then and won’t be defeated now, she told a cheering crowd.
The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by U.S. warplanes in 1986. “Leave our skies with your bombs,” she said, referring to NATO airstrikes that had struck Tripoli just hours earlier.
