Libya's Saif Gadhafi could be tried within weeks, official says By Nic Robertson, CNN February 5, 2012 -- Updated 1240 GMT (2040 HKT) Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was captured in November He was once seen as his father's heir apparent Probes into the death of Moammar Gadhafi could also be completed soon London (CNN) -- Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya's deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial "within weeks or months," Libya's interior minister said Sunday. His case will be handed to the courts as soon as the prosecutor general completes his investigations, Interior Minister Fawzy Abdilal told CNN in an exclusive interview. Once his father's heir apparent, Saif al-Islam was captured in November and has been held in the Libyan city of Zintan since then. The investigations into the death of Moammar Gadhafi after his capture last year could also be completed soon, Abdilal said. Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October, two months after he was deposed by rebel fighters. Abdilal said the circumstances of his death were complicated. "It was a battlefield, he was carrying weapons, there were fighters around, no one was controlling those fighters," Abdilal said. And, he said, "Many people claim that they are the ones who killed Gadhafi, and that is complicating matters."