Gaddafi son needs surgery on gangrenous fingers

[tabatha]

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Nov. 24 - Saif al-Islam's fingers show signs of gangrene and will require amputation says a doctor who examined him. Deborah Gembara reports.

[dipsydoodle]

1. UK TV reported

they were actually chopped off at the time he was caught by those that caught him - two fingers and a thumb.

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2. Now he has to eat with his left hand

That will create some social issues.

[tabatha]

3. That is incorrect. Crappy lies.

Saif Gaddafi himself stated that it happened from a NATO attack.

And I knew before he was caught that he had damage to his right arm/hand. It was stated by someone on AJE, about the time he was fleeing Bani Walid, weeks before he was captured. The person who stated that has NATO connections.

[tabatha]

4. Reuters

Saif al-Islam’s middle finger did not require surgery but the two other bandaged digits had been severed and were weeping pus, said Murakhovsky, who was interviewed by Reuters television in English and later by telephone in Russian.

“His index finger has been ripped off at the level of the middle phalange (finger bone), the bones are all shattered … It’s the same thing with the thumb of that hand,” he said.

When a picture of Saif al-Islam’s bandaged hand was aired, many Libyans thought his captors had cut off his fingers in retribution for televised remarks in which he threatened anti-Gaddafi rebels, pointing and making other hand gestures.

Murakhovsky, however, said the injuries were consistent with “some kind of explosion.”

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