A Desert Picnic With Libya’s Most Wanted Man

A Desert Picnic With Libya’s Most Wanted Man

The message arrived last summer during a visit to Tripoli. A close friend on Saif al-Islam Gadhafi’s political team approached me with a quiet instruction: "Your brother wants you to have a Telegram number." In the coded lexicon of the Libyan "Green" movement — those often silent parts of Libyan society still supporting a Gadhafi — "your brother" was the standard shorthand for Saif, just as it had once been for his father, Moammar. I created the…