Detention of Qaddafi scion spotlights the soccer pitch as a platform of resistance

Al Saadi Al Qaddai (Source: AP/Cultureofsoccer.com)

By James M. Dorsey

NATO-backed Libyan rebels have captured Colonel Moammar Qaddafi’s soccer playing son, Al Saadi Al Qaddafi, the third of the Libyan leader’s seven sons to have been apprehended since the rebels late Sunday launched their final offensive on the capital Tripoli.

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head o…