Qaddafi's softer side comes out in family video

A video, supposedly made in 2005 at the Bab al-Aziya compound in Tripoli and now obtained by Reuters, shows Qaddafi playing and interacting with his granddaughter while his grandson is sleeping. Apparently Qaddafi's son Saadi shot the video, which captures the longtime dictator in somewhat happier times Libyan rebels overran Tripoli last month, forcing him into hiding.

Dressed in a white track suit and sitting on a divan, Qaddafi poses a question to the child: "Do you not love me? Do you not love me?" She responds, "No!," as wriggles away from him.

"Who is the sweet one then? Who is the sweet one then? Tell me, who is the sweet one?" Qaddafi insistently asks.

Says the child, who at one point put her hand on the mouth of her grandfather: "Ssshhhh, silent, keep quiet!"

In sizing the child up, Qaddafi asks her whether if she would give her other grandfather Khuwailde a thumbs up or thumbs down, whom she gives a thumbs up.

Then Qaddafi asks: "What about your grandfather Al Fateh (referring to himself)?" The granddaughter makes a gesture of thumbs-up, which earns Qaddafi's seal of approval. "By God, it is good this time!"