Bedtime story: Afterlife tales for Aisha's kids

NEW YORK: Though the Libyan first family strikes defiant postures publicly, Aisha al-Gaddafi, the lone daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, says she tells her children bedtime stories of afterlife as she feels they are appropriate in present times.
"To make them ready," the 36-year-old lawyer by training said, offering a glimpse into the increasingly fatalistic mind setup of the isolated family at the head of the battle for Libya, the bloodiest arena in the popular uprising sweeping the region.
"Because in time of war we never know when a rocket or bomb might hit you and that will be the end," Aisha said in reflections in complete contrast to her brother Saif al-Islam and her father who have declared that air and missile strikes can't harm them. pti