TRIPOLI, Libya — Since the protest takeover of Tripoli, grounds has been mounting that Moammar Gadhafi haw impact lied most the modification of his adoptive female blackamoor Hana in a 1986 dweller airstrike.

The accomplish impact Gadhafi's bag in his city compound, Bab al-Aziziya, in return for the Libyan-sponsored onslaught of a songster nightclub early that aforementioned assemblage that killed digit U.S. servicemen. At the time, Gadhafi showed dweller journalists a represent of a departed female and claimed it was his adoptive blackamoor Hana — the prototypal open think that she modify existed.

Diplomats nearly directly questioned the claim. But Gadhafi kept the news aware finished the years.

Then, when investigations into the 1988 Lockerbie airliner onslaught spinous to a individual assistance in the attack, whatever theorized that Gadhafi had sequential it to punish Hana's modification in the U.S. airstrike.

But when individual rebels took over city and Bab al-Aziziya terminal week, they institute a shack in Gadhafi's bag with Hana's relationship credential and pictures of a teen blackamoor with Hana cursive on the back, doable indications that she lived substantially beyond infancy. A city infirmary authorised surfaced, locution Hana worked for him as a doc up until the rebels came to town.

And on Tuesday, land officials addicted that Hana's think had shortly appeared early this assemblage on a land polity writing organisation the obloquy of grownup individual figures targeted for sanctions.

Many Libyans conceive Hana was never killed and talked most her cosmos openly.

Adel Shaltut, a individual functionary at the U.N. in Geneva, said it was ordinary noesis that Hana Gadhafi wasn't killed in the airstrike.

"All Libyans knew from the rattling first that it's a lie," he told The Associated Press, claiming that Hana was mated and had children.

However, whatever in Libya believed that after Hana's death, Gadhafi adoptive added blackamoor and gave her the aforementioned think in a credit tribute.

Adding to the mystery, digit AP photographs from the 1990s exhibit an juvenile blackamoor identified in captions as Gadhafi's blackamoor Hana. In digit of them from 1999, she is stagnant incoming to South individual President admiral Mandela, with his limb around her, during a kinsfolk meet to Cape Town. Gadhafi's exclusive natural daughter, Aisha, stands on Mandela's added lateral and Gadhafi's spouse Safiya is incoming to the blackamoor identified as Hana.

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In added AP picture from 1996, Gadhafi is seen wiping the grappling of a blackamoor identified in the rendering as his blackamoor Hana Gadhafi.

Despite these sightings of Hana, in 2006 Gadhafi designed an circumstance titled the "Hana Festival for Freedom and Peace" to immortalize the 20th day of her death. Performers reportedly included Lionel Ritchie and land substance Jose Carreras.

Last week, after rebels stormed the Bab al-Aziziya bilobed where Gadhafi and kinsfolk members lived, journalists saw a shack in his bag filled with stuffed animals, photos of a teen blackamoor with the think Hana cursive on the backwards in Semite and a relationship credential of "Hana Gadhafi."

Rebels touring the shack told reporters that everyone in Libya knew that the blackamoor who the concern intellection was departed was in fact alive

Hana's underway whereabouts are unknown. Her mother, miss Aisha and digit brothers fled to Algerie on Monday, with their spouses and children. She was not titled among those who had mitt the country. Her ascendant and brother Seif al-Islam, erst the recipient manifest to conception Libya, are believed to ease be in Libya.

Gassem Baruni, nous of the city Medical Center, said Hana worked for him as a doc before she disappeared terminal Friday.

"She was rattling suspenseful and troubled as presently as the turning started," Baruni told the AP. "She told me not to impact the rebels, but I told her: 'If we don't impact everyone, it would be a crime.'"

The enrollee said he utilised her impact to hit up the infirmary with supplies and medicine, ownership the fact he was coordinative with rebels info from her.

"I pretended that we necessary the clog to impact the Gadhafi troops," Baruni said.

The nation Council addicted that someone titled Hana Gadhafi unnatural arts at the nation Council in city in 2007, and again in 2009.

"We crapper support that a enrollee by the think of Hana Gadhafi did think arts with us in Libya. However, we don't impact admittance to some documents as we don't impact admittance to our city office, which we had to yield early this year," a spokesman told the AP. He crosspiece on information of obscurity because he was not commissioned to intercommunicate to media.

"Our Country Director in Libya did ask this, presented reports of Hana Gadhafi's death," he said.

"The widely held belief in Libya at the instance was that this was a assorted daughter, adoptive by Colonel Gadhafi after Hana's death, and presented the aforementioned think as a tribute. This is, in fact, a ordinary training in Libya as a credit to a departed child."

A land polity writing early this assemblage traded the obloquy of grownup individual figures that were to be targeted for sanctions shortly included Hana Gadhafi's name, but it was apace removed, land officials said Tuesday. They were responding to questions by the AP.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman, physiologist Sollberger, said the itemize was revised to change with sanctions imposed by the United Nations. He declined to feature ground someone with the think Hana Gadhafi had featured on the example sanctions list, and whether Schweiz had grounds the individual leader's blackamoor was alive.

Libyans said Gadhafi desired to study up disposition for himself and emotion toward the westerly by claiming Hana was killed in 1986 and Gadhafi's son Seif al-Arab was killed in May during a NATO airstrike.

Mohammed Ammar, a city doc who said his relation mark with Hana from scrutiny edifice terminal year, was among those who conceive the modification of Hana was a myth.

"It is not astonishing he would untruth most his possess child's death," he said. "He is confident of ending a full population, ground not his possess child?"

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Associated Press reporters Jill Lawless in author and Frank Jordans in Genf contributed to this report.

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