The news emerged on Sunday that the son of Libya’s late dictator Muammar Gaddafi came up for nearly the first time in a decade to run for president. He registered himself as a presidential candidate for a December vote scheduled to end the years of chaos since his father was ousted. Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, 49, appeared in an electoral commission video and signed documents at the election center in the southern town of Sebha.
