NATO bombs Qaddafi's Tripoli compound
NATO bombs Qaddafi's Tripoli compoundArutz Sheva: Pakistan Dunya

One of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's most feared sons, Khamis, was reportedly been killed in an air strike.

Khamis, 27, is reputed to be an elite military commander. He is the seventh and youngest son of the Libyan strongman and has been in charge of the Khamis Brigade of his father's army, the unit that bears his own name.

A man who claimed to be the younger Qaddafi's bodyguard allegedly confirmed the report to a Sky News correspondent at the scene.

According to the report, Khamis was assassinated by a missile fired by a NATO Apache helicopter on Monday evening as he was traveling south of Tripoli in an armored Toyota Land Cruiser. The resulting explosion was allegedly so intense it ignited the surrounding trees.

However, there have in the past been several times in which Khamis was reported killed, only to later reappear, alive and well. He was first reported to have been killed in March, and then again earlier this month. Both accounts were erroneous, or deliberate disinformation.

The Algerian foreign ministry reported to the United Nations that Qaddafi's wife Safiya, his daughter Aisha, his two sons, Hannibal and Muhammed and their children all arrived in the country earlier in the day. 

Muammar Qaddafi's whereabouts are still unknown, as are the whereabouts of his son Seif al-Islam Qaddafi. In the past week the former dictator has issued at least two audiotaped statements in which he has vowed to return and retake the capital, and has urged the Libyan people to "purify" the capital, Tripoli, of the rebel forces, whom he referred to as "rats."